However, Mother Zheng, who could endure her husband not coming home for almost ten years and having a small family of her own outside, was naturally not a simple person.
Before his death, he did not know what tricks he used to force Zheng's father to swear a vow in front of his ancestor's memorial tablet that he would never marry anyone except Zheng's mother.
Therefore, although Zheng's mother died long ago, the bastard of the Zheng family can only be a bastard for the rest of his life.
It can also be said that a mother used her own life to find a way for her son to survive.
For a big family like the Zheng family, if there is no legitimate son, all the things passed down by the ancestors will be cheaper for others.
However, although the Zheng family is scattered, internally in chaos, and has not yet been ennobled, no one in the capital dares to bully them at will.
This is about the characteristics of the Zheng family: they fight among themselves, but if someone bullies them, no matter how far away they are, as long as they receive the news, they will crawl back and bite a piece of your flesh.
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Something like this happened in Mr. Zheng’s generation:
——At that time, the grandfather of the Zheng family was the minister of the Ministry of Industry in the DPRK. He was the most accomplished official in the Zheng family since the founding of the Qilin Kingdom except Prime Minister Zheng.
It's just that Mr. Zheng's temperament is too upright and he doesn't know how to adapt. He has offended many people along the way, and he can't even count them on his hands and toes.
Then, he was framed for revenge.
The Master of the Zheng family designed a long-range bow and arrow, but the night before he presented it to the Emperor, someone stabbed the Emperor with the bow and arrow he designed, and then presented the bow and arrow to the Emperor the next day.
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It's not much different from being sent to your door and admitting that you are an assassin.
No, the whole family went to jail.
But the next month was terrible, as Zheng family members from all directions continued to flock to the capital.
Before those people returned to Beijing, they had already found out who had killed the Grand Master of the Zheng family. Those who knew martial arts went directly to that person's home. Others took the evidence and knocked on the drum outside the palace gate to redress the grievances and accuse the emperor.
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Some of the systems in the Qilin Kingdom are really flawed. If you want to file an imperial complaint, you can't just beat the drum. Especially if it's a civilian like the Zheng family, you have to roll a hundred meters long and pour it on the pointed end.
The iron nails have nail plates as long as two palms.
Only when you survived and escaped did you prove that you were really wronged.
As for the Zheng family, they actually rolled the 100-meter nail board.
They are all scattered and going their separate ways. If one party is in trouble, they can even roll a nail on the head and file a petition. How can you say that the team is not united?
From that time on, although the number of Zheng family members left in the capital was reduced, the various aristocratic families in the capital never dared to look down upon them.
But...
Qi Baoer raised her lips and smiled, confidently saying: "It's okay, Prime Minister Zheng won't trouble me."
He was so angry at his biological mother that he probably wished he could kill both mother and son.
It's just that the Zheng family has family mottos, the first of which is not to kill each other.
And among the other clan rules, which add up to a hundred or so, half of them are designed to reinforce this point layer by layer like a matryoshka doll.
To put it in plain language, it means that we should not kill each other or frame each other, but should help each other for the sake of unity and deal with the outside world.
At this time, the housekeeper was confused, "Princess, if you go by what you said, then the Zheng family should be a rare noble family. How come there are rumors like that..."
.... Qi Baoer gave him a look of "Are you stupid?" "The Zheng family was a big family in the previous dynasty. Think about it, how many of the big families left in the previous life are still in Beijing?"
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Why think about this question?!
"Just the Zheng family."
It’s not that the others are gone, but they have gradually left the capital, the center of power.
"The aristocratic families of the previous dynasty, the officials of the previous dynasty, they must not show weakness..."
Xiaonen pointed in the direction of the palace, "Can the people there accommodate them?"
I hope the housekeeper will realize, "They are discordant and scattered to various places, and they are just pretending!!"
This scheming is too deep.
Qi Baoer's eyes were deep and silent.
The fact that the Zheng family is not in harmony should be true or false. After all, no one is perfect. Even if there is a family within the Zheng family, there is no guarantee that everyone will not violate the family rules.
As for the fact that they are scattered in different places, Qi Baoer personally feels that this is the cleverness of the Zheng family.
Looking back on what happened with the Zheng family's great-grandfather, the Zheng family knew who had killed the Zheng family's great-grandfather before they returned to the capital, and they immediately produced evidence. What does this mean?
This shows that the Zheng family has cast a wide net.
And the reason why their network is so big is not just because they can see the people withering away, but in fact there are Zheng family members everywhere'?!
If the master keeps silent, how can a servant continue to complain?
Butler Qi silently climbed up and stood up, lowered his head and looked at the uppers of his shoes, pretending that the embarrassing scene of his weak legs just now did not exist.
After a while, I heard the soft and sticky voice of the master above me again. The little master's voice was really nice, as if it was wrapped in honey. Of course, if the little master's tone didn't contain a hint of badness, then it would be...
Better.
"The Ye family is the Ye family of the Yangzhaohou Mansion, right? It seems to be related to the Zheng family by marriage? If I remember correctly, the second aunt of the Ye family married the concubine of the Zheng family."
Butler Qi broke into a cold sweat for some reason, "Yes, the second aunt of the Ye family married the concubine of Prime Minister Zheng."
Qi Baoer put his chin on his hand and asked again with interest: "The Ye family's printing business seems to have started after their second aunt married the bastard of the Zheng family, right?"
Housekeeper Qi hadn't paid attention to this point before. It had already happened over twenty years ago and had nothing to do with his family, so naturally he wouldn't bother to pay too much attention to it.
But as a qualified housekeeper, there must be a way to eat all kinds of melons in Beijing. I have already had a mark on this matter in my heart, but I didn't pay attention to it before. Now that Qi Bao'er mentioned it, I thought about it.
The memory just surfaced.
"Old slave, I remember that this is what happened. There was a rumor outside that when Prime Minister Zheng's concubine married the second aunt of the Ye family, one of the dowries was a recipe from which a share of the profits went to the sea.
However, the benefits behind such a lucrative business like printing are even more astonishing, and no one else in the Zheng family said anything, so no one thought that the recipe used as a dowry was printing."
Everyone thought that if it was really printing, how could other members of the Zheng family allow it?
Let’s talk about the Zheng family’s papermaking skill, which is now passed down in the family.
Papermaking actually existed in the previous dynasty. However, the previous dynasty was dominated by one family, so only the royal family and nobles could occasionally use paper. Most ordinary people had never even seen it.
After the Qilin Kingdom overthrew the previous dynasty, the art of papermaking disappeared for a time. Later, a gentleman named Miao accidentally bought the art of papermaking from the private sector, and then the art of papermaking came to light again.
This Mr. Miao is a man with a long-term vision. After he got the papermaking, he did not keep it for himself, but dedicated it to the imperial court. He did not want any personal benefits, and his only request was to make paper available to scholars as much as possible.
Therefore, papermaking has been in the hands of the imperial court since then.
(End of chapter)
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