1037. Chapter 1037 Shen Yunluo makes another ruthless move [11]
Everyone started chattering and talking, saying that Shen Mingzhu is really that powerful?
Although Shen Mingzhu is the eldest daughter of the Prime Minister's Mansion, the Shen family has only developed in recent years. In terms of heritage, it is nothing at all. Let's talk about heritage after three generations of their family have been prime ministers.
Now, for the ladies from these centuries-old families, the prime minister's house is actually the nouveau riche.
Before Shen Can, the Shen family was just a big family in Shenjiawan. The old man of the Shen family married a young lady from the rogue Liu family. After that, Shen Can became an official and married the famous Pei family, which raised his status.
The people who are doing this may not be officials in their families, or they may have withdrawn from the center of power, but they are all from centuries-old families.
The family has produced many prime ministers, generals, and scholars. Even now, many of them are feudal officials trusted by the emperor, but they just do not participate in the competition for the central position.
This is the rule of their family. It has already reached its peak, and it is impossible for it to remain prosperous forever.
The only thing that can be done is to withdraw from the center of power and not be feared by the royal family, but at the same time do things loyally and not be despised by others without any power at all.
Therefore, their families, and the current families of nobles with military merits and the families of officials who have only been officials for one or two generations, are basically two different circles.
They look down on those "nouveau riche".
What they often say is: After being an official for three generations, you don’t know how to dress and eat. Those country bumpkins think they are great after being an official for only a few years. Little do they know that they are just crickets jumping in the grass. Will they survive the end of the year? It's hard to say.
But now the Shen family is considered to be the most popular family in the capital. Everyone has heard about the constant turmoil. However, there was no suitable opportunity before, so no one discussed it.
Now there was Mrs. Zhang, who came from that class, and she happened to start chatting with them, and the conversation became more and more interesting.
Mrs. Zhang said she didn't know, but inside and outside her words, she was slandering Shen Mingzhu, saying that she was evil-hearted and had killed the Shen Hui family, then the Liu family and the Shen family.
Someone said angrily, "Is it possible that Shen Mingzhu is still a troublemaker? Now that she has confused King Yan, won't she be causing trouble in the future? It seems that it would be better to get rid of her as soon as possible."
Someone immediately echoed, "That's right, otherwise wouldn't the capital be in chaos by then? All the good days have been messed up by her."
"Princess, please make up your mind."
Although they were filled with indignation and wanted to do something, they still had to look to the leader of their circle - Princess Ning'an.
Just like the younger generation of the royal family now, they are afraid of Xiao Xian and Princess Lanling based on the emperor's face, while the civil servants are afraid of the Shen family and act based on his face.
The eyeball of this group of distinguished families is the eldest princess of Ning'an.
She was the elder sister of the late emperor, and was married to the Xia family, a century-old prominent family in the Qin Dynasty. Naturally, she was a very noble person.
The famous families of the Qin Dynasty for hundreds or even hundreds of years include the Chu family, Wan family, and Xie family in the south of the Yangtze River, and the Xia family, Cui family, and Lu family in the north of the Yangtze River.
They are not considered to be figures in the center of power today, but their influence cannot be ignored.
They were also trained to not interfere too much in government affairs, lest they be feared by the emperor.
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