After all, Master Cen Qi had a noble status in the Guangxi chieftain community. Although Huang Zhiting was afraid that he would poach her, she could not help but treat him with courtesy and arranged a separate guest house for him to stay temporarily.
Originally, the idea of "should detain Cen Ling in Siming Mansion" came into her mind for a moment, but she quickly dismissed it. There were two reasons why she didn't want to do this:
First, Sicheng Prefecture is currently in a situation where two tigers are fighting. Once Cen Qi is detained in Siming Mansion, Huang Ma can immediately take control of Sicheng Prefecture, but Huang Ma’s Huang is not the Huang family of Siming Mansion.
Huang, what benefit does his mastery of Sicheng Prefecture bring to Siming Mansion?
Not to mention that Cen Shaoxun is not dead, even if he is, his only son Cen Yunhan is now in Guilin. If Huang Ma dares to usurp the power of Sicheng Prefecture, the most likely result is that the imperial court will take this opportunity to send troops to Sicheng Prefecture.
Although Chengzhou is strong, since it is a tyrant, the other branches of the Cen clan in western Guangxi will not be willing to help each other. Instead, they may respond to the imperial court's call and send troops to Sicheng, and Sicheng will be defeated by then.
If Sicheng is defeated, what will be the consequences? At first glance, it seems that the main branch of the Cen family has declined again. Relatively speaking, the Huang family may be superior to the Cen family. But what is the meaning of this? At that time, the court said
It may be possible to directly change the native land and return to exile in Sicheng Prefecture, and send the directly ruling officials to the core areas of the chieftains in western Guangxi.
Even if the imperial court decides to be more stable, it can send someone to send Cen Yunhan back to assume office, and then use the excuse that Cen Yunhan is only four years old and unable to rule Sicheng, and send Ren Tongzhi, an exiled official, to assist him and actually control Sicheng - if this is done,
The imperial court has grasped all the righteousness, and the surrounding chieftains can't even find an excuse to rebel. They can only eat Coptis chinensis in silence, unable to express their sufferings.
It can be seen that no matter what the court chose, for the Guangxi chieftains, the "fall" of Sicheng Prefecture was a big defeat. It was not only the Cen family's interests that were damaged, but the entire Guangxi chieftains had to pay the price.
Therefore, although the detention of Master Cen Qi seems to have given the Huang family an opportunity to replace the Cen family and become the number one chieftain family in Guangxi, behind this bait is the eye of the imperial court, which will inevitably outweigh the gain in the end.
There was another reason that she couldn't explain. Huang Zhiting felt that if she did this, Mr. Zhang might misunderstand how vicious she was.
No matter which of these two reasons is more important, Master Cen Qi got the opportunity to "be a guest and Siming" and live in another guest house not far from the guest house where Gao Pangshi lived.
After arrangements were made for "Mr. Zhang" and "Mr. Cen Qi", Huang Zhiting, who had been away from the government for more than half a month, could not delay any longer. She could only go to meet with local officials at all levels under her and quickly deal with some of the recent backlog of government affairs in Siming Mansion.
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As soon as she left, Mr. Cen Qi walked out of his guest house and headed towards the guest house where Gao Pangshi lived.
After all, Mr. Cen Qi is an honored guest, and Huang Zhiting can't give him an order not to go out. At most, he can't just walk around in the backyard at will. However, several guest rooms are adjacent to each other. It's naturally not good for the Huang family's servants to walk between the guest rooms.
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Young Master Cen Qi suddenly came to visit, and Gao Pingshi seemed to have expected it. He welcomed him in with a smile, and then ordered the servants sent by Huang Zhiting to wait for him to go out and wait.
Huang Zhiting treated him with great courtesy, and the servants were confused about the situation, so they had no choice but to leave after being ordered to leave, leaving the two distinguished guests to talk.
Unexpectedly, as soon as they left, Mr. Cen Qi, who had been meeting Gao Pingjing with courtesy, stopped smiling, and solemnly went down to the official position to attend the ceremony of honoring the superior officials. He said in his mouth: "The local magistrate of Sicheng Prefecture, under the Secretary of the Government of Guangxi Chengxuan, Zhili
The lower official, Cen Ling, went to Guangxi to patrol the censor, the censor, and press the platform for Jin'an!"
Gao Pingshi was startled for a moment, and subconsciously wanted to hide it: "Master Cen Qi..."
"I don't dare to be a lowly official. I have something to do but please give me your instructions."
Gao Jingshi twitched the corner of his mouth and said secretly: Ci'ao, have I been exposed? I just asked why Cen Ling came to Siming Mansion suddenly when he was in good condition. At first, he thought it was because I was so talented that he really couldn't bear to be intercepted by Huang Zhiting. Now look
That's not the case at all. The status of the patrol censor is still valuable!
"Well... please get up and speak." Anyway, it has been exposed, and Cen Ling has paid homage, obviously he is confident enough, and there is no point in hiding it at this time.
"Thank you for the press." Mr. Cen Qi stood up and stood aside respectfully, just like the chieftains who met the Guangxi patrol minister at ordinary times - provided that the chieftain did not intend to rebel.
"Judge Cen, when did you know the identity of the chieftain?" In fact, Gao Pragmatic just learned about the official position of Cen Qi Gong. However, although the official position of the chieftain is the same as the name of the official in the imperial court, at most the word "Tu" is added in front of it.
But it's actually completely different.
A chieftain has his own land, manages his people, controls his troops, inherits his position, governs his place, joins his family, and receives his title from generation to generation. He also "kills people without asking for orders, and dies without worrying about them." This difference
But it's grown up.
Moreover, the official positions above their heads may not actually be consistent with their actual management of the areas they govern. For example, Cen Ling, a Tuzhou magistrate, according to the imperial system, is an administrative assistant to the magistrate, responsible for grain, mills, farming, water conservancy, etc.
Patrolling, herding horses and other tasks, his rank is from the seventh level, but he can run around Guangxi and even come to Siming Mansion as a guest.
"Replying to the press platform, the lower official saw the poem carved on the wall of the press platform." Cen Qi Gongzi answered with cupped hands.
Oh, it turns out that this guy ran and turned back...
Gao pragmatic nodded and no longer asked about this matter, but asked: "You came to Siming Mansion for me?"
"Yingtai Yingming, I have something to do and I want to ask you to seek justice." Mr. Cen Qi said sternly.
This makes Gao Pangshi a little surprised. You are such a big chieftain, and the court has not wrongfully accused you of rebellion. Why do you want me to uphold justice?
However, the duties of the patrol censor did not specifically say that the chieftain was outside the scope of his inspection, so the other party asked him to "dispose of justice" according to the rules, and he could not ignore it.
Therefore, Gao Pragmatic nodded: "If you have any grievances, just tell them, and I will find out."
Cen Qi Gongzi said: "I want to accuse Huang Ma, a fellow local magistrate of this state, of ignoring the court system, putting the magistrate under house arrest, assassinating the magistrate's son, usurping Sicheng, with ulterior motives and intending to rebel!"
Gao Jingshi already knew a lot about the fight between the two tigers in Sicheng Prefecture from Huang Zhiting, but Huang Zhiting only knew that Cen Shaoxun, the local magistrate of Sicheng Prefecture, ignored government affairs and left everything to Huang Ma and Cen Ling.
I didn’t know he was under house arrest by Huang Ma!
And according to what Cen Ling said just now, Huang Ma also secretly harmed Cen Yunhan? No wonder Cen Yunhan was sent to Guilin. It turned out that he was not actively providing protons, but was sent to seek refuge.
This was a major event that could shock Guangxi. Gao Pragmatic did not dare to take it lightly, and his eyes were focused: "This is a big matter. Please explain it in detail. Don't miss a single point, let alone gloss over it."
Cen Ling said he didn't dare, and then reported the causes and consequences of the so-called "two tigers fighting" in Sicheng Prefecture to the high pragmatic and high patrol inspector.
According to Cen Ling, the Huangma family only came to prominence when Cen Meng attacked Sicheng Prefecture in the past.
The family power controlled the territory of several villages, and was called upon by the magistrate Zhou Cen when necessary.
When Cen Meng came to invade, Cen Jie thought he was outnumbered, so he mobilized all the Tumu near Lingyun City, the state city, to jointly defend Lingyun City. As mentioned earlier, this battle was fought back and forth for several years, and Huang Ma
My grandfather was gradually promoted to more important positions due to his effectiveness in fighting.
Due to Cen Meng's raids around Lingyun City, many originally strong clans were seriously injured. Huang Ma's grandfather relied on his military exploits and the trust and rewards of the Cen family to gradually expand his strength.
During the Meng Rebellion, Huang Ma's grandfather was already the most powerful Tumu near Lingyun City besides the Cen family.
After Huang Ma's father, when Huang Ma became Tumu, he pretended to be Cen Shaoxun's right-hand lackey and responded to Cen Shaoxun's instructions and requests.
The Tumu family finally secretly completed basic control over Lingyun City's defense forces.
Cen Shaoxun was fond of fishing and hunting, and often took a small group of wolf soldiers out to the mountains outside Lingyun City to fish and hunt. Finally, when he returned from hunting, Huang Ma, who had long been plotting to usurp power, falsely sent an order to transfer the wolves controlled by Cen's family.
He was a soldier and was placed under house arrest. Cen Ling was young at the time and rarely showed up, so he was ignored by Huang Ma.
At the critical moment, Cen Ling, with the support of his servants and subordinates who were still loyal to the Cen family, took out Cen Shaoxun's only son Cen Yunhan, who was just born, from the mansion, broke out of the siege, and rushed to Cen's wolf who was transferred by Huang Ma.
In the army, he planned to lead his troops to fight back to Lingyun City.
However, Lingyun City was the core of Sicheng Prefecture's rule for hundreds of years. It was repeatedly reinforced especially during the Cenmeng Rebellion. Although the wolf soldiers were brave, they had no preparations for attacking the city. There was a serious shortage of siege equipment.
He was able to send troops to Lingyun City.
Moreover, Huang Ma has won over the four Tumu, and his strength is not weak. In addition, he controls Cen Shaoxun, and Cen Ling is even more afraid of rats. To be precise, at that time, the two sides were in a state of "beating a wolf with a straw and fearing both sides". Who can
There is nothing anyone can do.
Cen Ling couldn't attack, and Huang Ma didn't dare to come out to fight the main force of Cen's wolf soldiers. The two sides were in a stalemate.
In the end, Huang Ma had a guilty conscience and ordered the two parties to shake hands and make peace in the name of Cen Shaoxun. At the same time, he secretly sent someone to discuss with Cen Ling. Under the premise of ensuring not to harm Cen Shaoxun, the two sides maintained peace and jointly took charge of Sicheng Prefecture - this joint control, in fact,
Huang Ma controls Lingyun City and issues orders in the name of Cen Shaoxun, while Cen Ling controls the rest of Sicheng Prefecture. Whether he listens to the orders depends on the outcome of the game between the two parties.
However, without Lingyun City in hand, Cen Ling was still worried about the safety of his nephew Cen Yunhan. In the end, he gritted his teeth and sent him to Guilin "as a hostage". Although the status was a bit embarrassing, it could guarantee his safety - Imperial Court
After all, things should be done based on the system and "results from teachers". Even the Cen family has sent hostages, so the imperial court is not completely shameless and still takes action against the Cen family.
After telling the story of the Cen family in Sicheng, it is now Gao Pragmatic's turn to express his stance.
