(The sea ahead, please be prepared.)

At the same time, the spokespersons of Shandong's wealthy families in Chang'an were all dumbfounded.

They also couldn't believe that the Zheng family would be wiped out by a ragtag group of thieves.

This is simply the biggest joke in the world.

But the facts are before their eyes. This is what the newspapers say, and every article is written by a big boss. Overtly or covertly, they are all criticizing the Shandong gentry.

They didn't have time to think too much and immediately ordered someone to summon them immediately. All the discussions last night were rejected and everything was running normally, otherwise they would have to accept Li Shimin's wrath.

The Zheng family has been exterminated. If anyone dares to jump on this trend now, then the bandits will definitely destroy the next family.

This matter must be decided by the family heads.

They still can't make the decision.

This explosive news spread throughout the Tang Dynasty within two days, and even businessmen quickly spread the news from Xingyang.

Especially the wealthy families in Hebei and Youyan areas have confirmed that the Zheng family in Xingyang was really exterminated.

As for whether it was the bandits or Li Shimin who did it, everyone knows it.

After all, the secret news came out. The Zheng family in Xingyang raised more than a thousand dead soldiers. All the dead soldiers were dead, and the corpses of the bandits were only more than 300.

In Dongwu County, Beizhou, the home of the Cui family in Qinghe, several branch family heads have gathered to discuss how to deal with Li Shimin's aggressiveness next.

Li Shimin destroyed the Zheng family in Xingyang, which they never expected.

Cui, a descendant of Jiang Ziya, became famous in Cui Ruyi in the early Western Han Dynasty.

Cui Ruyi gave birth to two sons, who later settled in Dongwu County of Qinghe County and Anping County of Zhuo County respectively, and became the later Cui family of Qinghe and the Cui family of Boling.

The Cui family of Qinghe developed through the Western Han and Eastern Han Dynasties and rose to prominence in the late Han Dynasty. Brothers Cui Yan and Cui Lin, who assisted Cao Wei, were members of the Cui family of Qinghe.

In the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the nine-rank Zhongzheng system was implemented in the imperial court, and aristocratic families became the main channel for selecting talents.

It has to be said that Cui really caught up with the good times, caught up with this trend, and gradually moved towards the center of power.

During this period, the population of the Cui family in Qinghe skyrocketed, and many branches were developed, divided into six houses, scattered throughout the Central Plains.

These include Qinghe Dafang, Qinghe Xiaofang, Qinghe Qingzhou Fang, Xuzhou Yanling Fang, Qijun Wushui Fang, Zhengzhou Cui family, Nanzu Cui family, etc.

The Cui family of Qinghe is known as the most prominent family in the north because the Cui family has a pivotal position in the minds of Han people and officials.

After the Rebellion of the Eight Kings of the Western Jin Dynasty, the Central Plains was in chaos, and the Han people were forced to migrate southward.

To be precise, it was the scholar-bureaucrats and nobles at that time who brought a large number of Han people across the Yangtze River, moved to the south, and established political power in the south.

In the entire north, there are still a large number of Han residents and some scholar-bureaucrats.

The Cui family also made the move to follow everyone in the south, but some of them stayed in their ancestral homeland, Dongwu County, Qinghe.

Those who remained served successively in the regimes established by ethnic minorities. During the Northern Wei Dynasty, members of the Cui family became the number two figures in the court, with power overwhelming both the government and the public.

After all, the Cui family are Han people. They advocated Hanization, implemented Han systems, governed the country with Confucianism, advocated the extermination of Buddhism, and finally succeeded in exterminating Buddhism.

But this caused resentment between the government and the public, and angered the Xianbei nobles.

After the Cui family implemented sinicization, it even harmed the interests of the Xianbei nobles, and the vested interests were the wealthy Shandong noble families represented by the Cui family.

Later, when compiling the history of the country, the Cui family scrawled it for others. After all, the Xianbei people's traditions were not very good, so the "Prison of National History" occurred.

The Cui clan suffered a disaster. Hundreds of years of accumulation were wiped out in one day, and several big clans were implicated.

Fortunately, the Cui family has a tradition, and it is certain that the cunning rabbit has three burrows. The family has long been divided into six houses, and the eggs are never put in one basket.

This is also the reason why the Cui family is respected by other wealthy families and scholar-bureaucrats, and why it has become the most prestigious family in the north.

After all, if you go against the regime established by a foreign race, you are not considered a traitor, but a family with backbone.

This also has to be mentioned, it really corresponds to the Buddhist saying, karma and retribution.

When the nine Cui clans were exterminated, one of the Cui clansmen named Cui Wei ran away. Later, he had a granddaughter, but he married Dugu Xin, a Xianbei man, and later gave birth to a seventh daughter to Dugu Xin.

The youngest daughter is Dugu Jialuo.

Li Yuan's mother and Li Shimin's grandmother are Dugu Jialuo's fourth sister (half-mother.)

After going around in a circle, hey, Mr. Cui felt that he could do it again. The people in power in both the Sui and Tang dynasties were all relatives of his family.

But what makes Ms. Cui desperate is that these two relatives are so damn difficult to get along with. They are always trying to cut off people's financial opportunities, and they are always trying to make Mrs. Cui look good.

In order to avenge the genocide that year, his Cui family united the entire Shandong gentry and overturned the rule of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, allowing him to join his relative Yang Jian in power.

I had made a promise before, but I didn't expect that after taking office, I started to make troubles, centralize power, implement the imperial examination system, and select talents from the bottom, in order to weaken their family's monopoly on officialdom and cut off the power in their hands.

They made their fortune by relying on the Nine-Rank Zhongzheng system. Aren't you, a relative, driving people to death?

Originally, they wanted to work on Yang Yong, but unfortunately, Yang Guang, the sixth man, usurped the throne. This man was even more difficult to deal with. He was so cruel to them that he wanted to eat their family alive.

How could this work? So they started looking for a spokesperson again.

At this moment, another relative of his family, Li Yuan, jumped out and said, support me and take you to eat meat and drink wine. So everyone supported Li Yuan and conquered the world.

Originally, Li Jiancheng was a very good person and had a good relationship with their aristocratic family. He even took the initiative to marry the Zheng family's daughter to tell them and reassure them.

This Zheng Yi was an important figure who helped the Sui Dynasty raise prices, and later also was an important figure who helped Li Yuan.

But it's not as good as fate, damn, the second child has usurped the throne again.

After Li Shimin became emperor, he led a group of bandits and united with their mortal enemies, the Guanlong family, to press them step by step and to kill them all.

This had to make them resist. They did not want to experience the disaster of the Northern Wei Dynasty again.

So with Cui as their representative, they called a group of like-minded people and jointly recommended Zheng, asking Zheng to give Li Shimin some color.

The Zheng family is spread across the Central Plains. Especially after the opening of the Grand Canal, it controls the throat of transportation, which makes families like them very uncomfortable. They are still typical wallflowers.

Therefore, he became their vanguard in Hebei and Youyan areas, testing Li Shimin's falsehoods and reactions, and then further compete with Li Shimin.

It's just that they never expected that Li Shimin was so ruthless in doing things that he would kill a son directly and secretly kill the Zheng family.

"Everyone, there are two ways now. One way is to let the Cui family slowly disappear into the long river of history. The other way is to take a risk and win in the face of danger."

The head of the Cui family's main house in Qinghe said something, and the heads of the other five families all looked at the main house, with mixed feelings in their hearts. They did not expect that the family's life and death would once again come to an end.

Looking at the development history of their family, it was really a bumpy and difficult journey, and they were almost exterminated twice.

In fact, they haven't seen it all. In history, they have suffered two genocide disasters, one was Wu Zetian and the other was Huang Chao.
Chapter completed!