A majestic mansion rises from the ground in Zhongyang Town, showing its majestic momentum in the sunshine.
The mansion is built according to Zhongyang Mountain and is almost integrated with the entire Zhongyang Mountain. The houses are connected and the pavilions and pavilions are staggered, showing a unique charm. The most outstanding thing about the whole mansion is the back house.
The design is connected to the front yard, but is located just on the mountainside. Sitting in the pavilion at the back of the house, you can't help but admire the flowers on the mountain, and you can also have a bird's-eye view of Zhongyang Town, highlighting the unique status of the Cao family in Zhongyang Town.
Cao Peng stood in the mountain pavilion with his hands behind his back.
Deng Ai had a dejected look on his face and sat in front of him, looking a little lonely.
After returning from Jiyang, Deng Ai seemed listless. Originally he wanted to help Cao Peng, but in the end, Cao Peng took action.
If the White Camel Soldiers hadn't suddenly appeared, even Deng Ai might have been trapped in Deng Village.
At the same time, Cao Peng's iron-blooded skills in the later stages of Ji Yang also brought great shock to Deng Ai.
In the entire Dengcun, all the clan members who were close to Deng Wei's branch were suppressed to varying degrees. It can be said that even if Deng Wei did not die, the Dengwei branch would not have a chance to succeed. However, as a result, Dengcun was under
The impact becomes obvious.
Deng Zhi lamented privately that within ten years, Deng would be unable to suppress Cen.
There is certainly a pity in this, but more importantly, it is a kind of helplessness... Turning a blind eye to the wealth in front of you, but ignoring the interests of the clan for the illusory future. Deng Wei's family is indeed not suitable to become a clan member. But
A new clan house cannot be built at once. After all, as a direct branch of the clan, the benefits enjoyed by the clan house are amazing, but it requires enough time to establish its own prestige. Deng Wei's branch is tired.
Now that Shizong's house has been destroyed, the Deng family will inevitably encounter chaos.
If a new clan wants to establish its prestige, it still needs an extremely long and difficult process.
Originally, according to Deng Zhi's wishes, pushing Deng Ji to the position of clan leader would be most conducive to Deng's recuperation.
However, his opinion was rejected by Cao Peng. On the one hand, Cao Peng did not want Deng Ji and the Deng family to be too involved. On the other hand, he also knew that once Deng Ji became the clan leader, he would definitely encounter various doubts.
After all, Cao Peng had killed one of Deng Wei's men before. If Deng Ji was not the clan leader, everything Cao Peng did could still be explained by official business. Then once Deng Ji became the clan clan leader, he would be pushed to the forefront.
1. With Deng Ji's reputation, it is not enough to fight against the Nanyang clan's inherent strength.
At that time, Cao Peng had already established his reputation as being involved in clan affairs.
Therefore, Cao Peng had no involvement in recommending the clan house.
After repeated thinking, Deng Zhi finally selected a candidate. The new head of the Dengcun clan was named Deng Di. In terms of reputation, he was not very famous, and he did not have an official position. However, he had studied under a great Confucian scholar.
Under Zheng Xuan's family, he was promoted to Maocai in his early years. From a moral point of view, he is impeccable. This Deng Di's family has considerable assets and has contacts with the Jingxiang family, including the Yingchuan family. He is very honest.
He is a loyal guy. He is quite famous in Dengcun. Even Deng Wei dare not offend this person easily.
The most important thing is that Deng Di Yifang is closely related to Deng Ji and even the Cao family.
Deng Juye, who is Deng Fan's father, was born in the same family of Dengdi. Although Deng Juye was only the son of a commoner, he still belonged to the same family in Dengdi. With such a relationship, it was destined that the first family of Dengdi would definitely marry Cao Cao.
At the same time, Cao Peng can also suppress all kinds of dissatisfaction in Deng Village. For now, pushing Deng Di to the position of clan leader is the best plan among Cao Peng's many choices.
Deng Di also personally went to Zhongyang Town to visit Cao Peng.
He expressed to Cao Peng that he was willing to give up part of the Deng family's interests in Jiyang to the Cen family. However, the condition was that he hoped to arrange for members of the clan to serve as officials. His requirements were not high and he was just a minor official. After thinking about it, Cao Peng
, and agreed to Dundee’s request...
When Deng Wei died, Dengcun's vitality was severely damaged.
In a short period of time, it will be difficult to rise, and they need some government protection to safeguard their interests.
This seems to be excusable.
In short, although the result is somewhat unsatisfactory, it is at least satisfactory.
As for the reaction of other powerful families in Nanyang, Cao Peng had some concerns as early as when he made up his mind to execute Deng Wei.
However, the time is not yet ripe and he will not act rashly.
"Xiao Ai, why are you unhappy?"
"Uncle, am I very useless?"
When Cao Peng heard this, he immediately laughed.
He had already guessed the clues about Deng Ai's depression.
It's just that Deng Ai has never spoken, so he won't take the initiative to ask. Now that Deng Ai has spoken, he can naturally follow the trend.
In fact, everyone has to go through countless twists and turns when growing up.
Cao Peng thought that if he had not lived again, he might have died in the sunset. But what about Deng Ai? According to Deng Zhi, his performance at that time was not too bad.
"Why did Xiao Ai say that?"
"I'm in Dengcun..."
"Hey, what did I think it was?
What happened in Dengcun is not your fault. Even your uncle Dengzhi almost died there? In this life, more hardships are not a bad thing. If everything goes smoothly when you are young, you will inevitably have problems when you grow up.
Dangerous. Failure is nothing, the key is what you learned."
Cao Peng sat down and chatted with Deng Ai.
It wasn't until Deng Ai's face showed a smile again that he breathed a sigh of relief.
"Xiao Ai, after returning to Wuyin this time, you can work with Xiao Di by my side."
Deng Ai couldn't help but be overjoyed when he heard this.
"Uncle, can I stay with you?"
"Of course...but I have a request. When you work around me, talk less, listen more, and do more...I won't give you any advice. If you don't understand anything, just ask Xiaodi."
"Um!"
Deng Ai nodded in agreement.
However, he hesitated for a moment and said softly: "Uncle, how do you plan to deal with Liu Bei?"
"Liu Bei?"
Cao Peng smiled slightly and stretched out his hand to rub Deng Ai's head, but did not answer. However, a glimmer of light flashed in his eyes.
He curled his lips and couldn't help but sneer in his heart.
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It's not that Cao Peng didn't want to deal with Liu Bei, but because the time was not yet ripe.
For now, Nanyang needs stability, not turmoil.
Liu Biao did not want to go to war with Cao Cao, and the Jingxiang family group also did not want a big conflict. If not, there would be no need to wait for Cao Peng to take office, Liu Bei would have sent troops to Nanyang long ago. However, under Liu Biao's suppression, although Liu Bei
After capturing Niyang Wancheng Bowang, he never dared to make another move. It wasn't that he didn't dare, but he was worried that making too big a move would arouse Liu Biao's vigilance.
Cao Peng is waiting!
Waiting for news from Youzhou...
However, the good news from Youzhou has not yet come, but Huang Yueying told Cao Peng some good news.
She copied it perfectly according to what Cao Peng said about movable type printing. Judging from the effect, it basically met Cao Peng's requirements.
"Afu, if this movable type printing is successful, doesn't that mean we can print books?"
Books these days are basically made from rubbings and hand-copied works.
As a result, the cost of printing this book is expensive...
In the workshop, Cao Peng picked up an eight-hundred-character text template printed with movable type printing, but shook his head slightly to express his objection.
Movable type printing is indeed an invention that has always served the country and benefited the future.
But for now, the time is not yet ripe.
Books have always been monopolized by powerful families. If books are published casually, their interests will inevitably be touched. Opening up the people's wisdom requires a process. At least in the initial stage, it is necessary to avoid irritating the nerves of those powerful people, otherwise the harm will be greater than
profit.
“If you don’t print books, what’s the point?”
Huang Yueying couldn't help but asked doubtfully.
Cao Peng chuckled, "Since I took office, Liu Xuande has repeatedly made trouble and created rumors.
This time he even used the incident in Jiyang Dengcun to instigate powerful people from all over the world to make things difficult for me. If I don’t give him some color, won’t I be underestimated by him?”
"What are you going to do?"
The smile on Cao Peng's face grew brighter and he said softly: "Madam, don't ask, just watch the excitement."
