Chapter 4310: open head

The situation of the Deng family in Nanyang is quite strange. It belongs to a super-large wealthy family. It is completely different from the withered descendants of the other founders of the Eastern Han Dynasty. This family is integrated under more than a dozen branches of Liehou, forming an extremely large pedigree.

Although during the Eastern Han Dynasty, it was also liquidated due to the issue of the regency of the foreign relatives, which led to the mass suicide of the Shangcai Hou Dengzhi after the death of the Empress Dowager Hexi and Deng.

The problem is that although the family of Shangcaihou is considered huge and has the size of a large family of princes, the family of Shangcaihou and Deng Zhi is only one of the grandsons of the thirteen sons of the founding Hou Dengyu...

As a super family with five founding lords and 29 lords in the founding period of the country, under the premise of abnormal birth, the size of the Nanyang Deng family has reached a rather outrageous level.

Of course, an overly large size will inevitably lead to problems that are difficult to manage, leading to the corruption of some members' family traditions. This is also the reason why Li You took the edict to cleanse several pulses when they went north.

However, this kind of loss that can be called extermination for other families is a bit painful for the Nanyang Deng family. Even Deng Tong, the theoretical head of the family at the time, scolded Li You for not being a son of man, and it will be like that after that After all, Deng Tong's family knew about their own family affairs, and as the theoretical head of the family, he still knew about their family's situation.

As a super wealthy family, the Deng family in Nanyang wanted money and people, and when they left, they took away all the people surnamed Deng in Nanyang area. After all, theoretically speaking, all the people surnamed Deng were related to their family. Therefore, if we want to build a country, we must have a foundation.

However, a big problem with the Deng family in Nanyang is that the dozen or so lines of their family cannot be integrated together. They lack a strong figure and leader, and there are always signs of failure internally. This is why Deng Tong gritted his teeth. I don't know if it is a branch of my own family, but in theory, Deng Ai, who is surnamed Deng in Nanyang, is related to my family, is included in my direct line.

In the situation of the Deng family, if the leader is a waste, and looking around his own house, Deng Tong can't find a next generation who can stand on the stage, just such a cub who was born with internal gas discovered before the migration, at least can It's an internal gas separation body!

Based on the fact that the other party is also surnamed Deng, it is also the logic of their Deng family to trace their lineage. Deng Tong accepted Deng Ai as his direct lineage and stepped up efforts to train him. Deng Ai did not live up to Deng Tong's expectations. , He also has extremely high qualifications in military and political affairs.

As for how to determine this aptitude, the prince has worked hard to lie down for another three months...

That's about it, what is a super wealthy family, that's it.

However, Deng Ai was too young after all. Yuanfeng was only eleven years old in the ninth year of Yuanfeng.

After the inspection, some family members were allowed to choose on their own, and then led 80% of the Deng family to Yuan's house.

At that time, the prices offered by the Yuan family in Runan were mutual. Deng Tong felt that the Yuan family was okay, but his super wealthy family really didn't have any pillars, so he went there. After he went, he obediently helped the Yuan family stabilize the internal affairs. .

The Deng family does not have top talents, but the ethnology education is there, and there are still plenty of talents for local governance. It can be said that the Deng family has helped the Yuan family lay a solid foundation.

In addition, Deng Tong really has no ambitions, and the Deng family has been around for another hundred and eighty years, and there is no motivation to fight for more than a dozen large branches, and being able to pass the identification of Li You's butcher's knife is enough to prove that these large branches The family style is also okay.

Therefore, Nanyang Deng's life in Sizhao City is very low-key, with almost no sense of presence. Except for attending court meetings and other things, Deng's life is the same as being offline.

He is either making a child or marrying a daughter throughout the year. He has no resistance at all to Chen Xi’s goal of being active and overfulfilling—anyway, whoever is married is not married. Eastern Europe seems to be more suitable for a centurion of the Han family. That's it.

Based on this idea, the Nanyang Deng family married their daughters to the Yuan family's centurion endlessly, and the Yuan family didn't care much about it. After all, who would have noticed such a thing before Cao Cao stepped on the trap? Besides, if they don't marry the centurion, these people have to marry someone else, and it doesn't make any difference to the Yuan family.

However, after Cao's thunderstorm this time...

"So do you think Mrs. Deng did it unintentionally? Or did it on purpose?" Chen Xi didn't know how to answer Li You's words, and asked after a while.

To be honest, Chen Xi really didn't think about this kind of situation. From Chen Xi's point of view, it is enough for the major families to marry more than a hundred people like the Zhang family and the Gan family. Chen Xi has never considered the situation of the Deng family. , can it still be like this?

"You have to ask the Patriarch of the Deng family about this. It just so happens that the Patriarch of the Deng family is in Chang'an." Zhuge Liang replied calmly. In his opinion, it doesn't make any difference whether he made a mistake unintentionally or intentionally.

It's all come to this point, it really doesn't matter.

In Chang'an, Deng Tong, who has always been very low-key, looked at the statistics and fell into deep thought. To be honest, his patriarch is the result of being taller among the short ones. As a result, marrying his daughter to the centurion was only because he had too many daughters, and he also obeyed Chen Xi's request.

But one thing to say, the good point of the Patriarch Deng Tong is that he recognizes the strength of others and knows his own shortcomings. This is the reason why Deng Tong, who has been incompetent for so many years, did not let the Deng family decline. Of course, if the Deng family does not decline, it is a success.

It is precisely because he knows that he has no ability, Deng Tong can listen to the advice of others, choose Deng Ai's stepson, and prepare to inherit the next generation of patriarch, because his father told him when he died, besides being the eldest son, you are also benevolent, and you have no ability , your son is not good either, but your advantage is that you don't mess around. Before you die, you can find an excellent stepson from the branch of our family to ensure that the family will not fall.

As for the reason for marrying a daughter, apart from having many daughters, there is another point that Deng Tong felt that Chen Xi was really too strong. As a respect for the strong, what the violent and holy Chen Xi said could be done at home. Of course, it must be executed unconditionally. Isn’t it just marrying a daughter?

If a mediocre family wants to make a big deal, Deng's main line will definitely oppose it.

After all, although you are the head of the family and Marquis of Gaomi, whoever is the head of our various branches is not a lieutenant, just go back, but the head of the family ordered the centurion to marry a daughter, and marry more daughters, then It belongs to the scope that needs to be obeyed, after all, it does not affect the core interests.

For this kind of wealthy family, except for the prostitute daughter and a very few concubine daughters who are of special value, the other daughters are all made up. Therefore, when Deng Tong ordered all the main lines to marry their daughters to the centurion, all the main lines were taken down. KPI is the same, I pulled an indicator and started working.

Then in eight years, 1,000+ marriage data were produced. The so-called 797 people are not the number of marriages, but the data of centurions who have not yet retired and are still in the military camp.

Therefore, after the Cao Cao incident happened, the main lines of the Deng family in Nanyang looked at the Patriarch with different eyes.

Respect, there is no way, what the big family is most afraid of is this kind of person who has righteousness and makes big things quietly, and this self-proclaimed trash patriarch really made big things happen.

"So now they think that I have a family ancestor who is as quiet as a fool?" Deng Tong sat on a chair and watched all kinds of private rumors collected by his intelligence personnel, and couldn't help but fell into deep thought. I thought of Is it today?

What the hell, I'm a piece of trash, who cares, just keep marrying your daughter.

On the second day of the first lunar month of the ninth year of Yuanfeng, because of the follow-up problems caused by Cao Cao's thunderstorm, the major families turned their attention to the Deng family and discovered that the Deng family had married two more daughters to the centurion of the Yuan family. I don't know what the mentality of the Yuan family in Chang'an is, but the other families are really stunned—did the Deng family really not pay attention to the influence at all?

"Pay attention to the influence?" Deng Tong was stopped by his old brother Geng Ji when he retired from the court, and then he had an honest and puzzled expression. We, a super wealthy family like the Deng family, marry two daughters to the centurion, you also care, you are It's not that there's nothing to do, it's too wide?

"Why don't you pay more attention, haven't you noticed that the Yuan family always looks at you?" Geng Ji said to Deng Tong with a little envy on his face.

The Geng family is also a descendant of the founding marquis, but there is still a gap between a family like Deng Tong who does not take the lead, but who makes people feel what is called a super wealthy family.

"I go

communicate with him. Deng Tong scratched his head and walked towards Yuan Sui who was coming to attend the court meeting in front of Geng Ji, and the group of people around Yuan Sui saw Deng Tong coming, and they also consciously gave way to Deng Tong. There is no way that Deng Tong's tricks made everyone respect him very much.

"Duke Yuan." Deng Tong bowed his hands to Yuan Suiyi, who was about to turn 80, showing the respect of the younger generation for the elders, "I heard that you are not angry with our Deng family's behavior."

Deng Tong belonged to a mediocre purebred patriarch, and he had rarely communicated with this group of people before, so he didn't want to go around and face Yuan Suiyi directly in front of a group of aristocratic families, that's all.

The aristocratic families around on the spot had a vague feeling that they were going to show off their chariots and prepare for a showdown with the Yuan family?

But it’s right to think about it. The big chess game has been exposed because of Cao Cao’s thunderstorm. At present, the middle and lower bureaucrats of the Yuan family, the Deng family, account for half, and the elite Deng family of the Han army accounts for more than half. Yuan Shi, who discovered this, relied on righteousness to suppress it, so he might as well spread it out and put it on the table!

There is no shortage of smart people in this circle of aristocratic families, and they can understand it after turning their brains around, and then they can understand it after communicating with each other—as expected of the patriarch of the super wealthy Deng family.

Immediately after retiring from the court, the major families who were about to leave did not leave. They liked to watch the super wealthy families fight each other. In the past, the Nanyang Deng family seemed to be incapable of fighting. , Integrate more than a dozen veins into one big one, and the target is the Yuan family in Runan, so it's fun!

Our aristocratic family likes to watch this kind of big men fight each other, come on, let us see whether the first wealthy family in the founding marquis lineage is powerful, or the emerging family leader Runan Yuan can fight, let's go!

Yuan Sui's face was displeased when he heard the words. For Yuan Sui, what happened to Cao Cao was eating melons. It was already bad enough for him to eat melons. After looking back, he found that the melons were too big. Deng Shi didn't know how to restrain himself!

In fact, most of the news collected by Deng Tong's own intelligence system was released by the Yuan family, because the Yuan family also realized that the situation was wrong, and these news were more for the moral pressure of Deng's betrayal.

"Is Mrs. Deng still an ally of Mrs. Yuan?" Yuan Sui asked calmly.

"It's written in black and white, and you can even compare them one by one. Which one has our Deng family crossed the line?" Deng Tong talked about the matter. He signed the alliance letter. He knew the content very well. They Deng's really didn't Cross the line.

"Then what you did before was the righteousness of an ally?" Yuan Sui asked calmly.

Deng Tong didn't understand the trap in this sentence, but Deng Tong's answer directly killed Runan Yuan's, "If you can't directly compare the contents in black and white, it's over. You, Runan Yuan, are not used to marrying two daughters. Then just go to Chen Hou, the order he gave, my family completed it according to the excess quota, you can’t blame my family just because my family has more daughters.”

Yuan Sui went numb immediately, turned his head and looked at Chen Xi who was sitting not far away and holding a magic mirror to watch, he didn't know what to say.

As for the surrounding aristocratic families, they looked at Deng Tong with admiration. This set of words was perfect, and even the righteousness of the Yuan family was overthrown. Now it really depends on the abilities of the two families. I wonder if Yuan Tan can stand up to the Deng family. This kind of creation!

However, the major aristocratic families still looked at Chen Xi unconsciously. Today's court meeting was mainly due to Zhuge Liang's report, and Chen Xi felt a little absent-minded.

"What are you looking at?" Chen Xi raised his head slowly after being watched by a group of people, and asked a little strangely, "Is there anything you need me to host?"

"No, Marquis Chen doesn't seem to be in shape today?" Deng Tong answered very normally.

"The public platform gave me a secret magic mirror. I have been thinking about whether to open it or not. I have been thinking about it all morning." Chen Xi said with an extremely complicated mood.

After Chen Gong signed the agreement the day before yesterday, the three great doctors had a busy day yesterday. Today, Cao Cao opened his head, and Chen Gong gave him a magic mirror. Chen Xi knew what the magic mirror was, but Chen Xi didn’t dare to look at it alone. .

"What secret magic mirror?" Deng Tong asked without knowing why.

"Ah, Cao Sikong's mystical mirror for craniotomy?" Chen Xi asked somewhat presumably.

"Craniotomy? What kind of punishment is this?" Deng Tong asked without knowing why.

"Forget it, I can't describe it clearly. I'll open it for you to have a look." Chen Xi was silent for a while, thinking that someone like Cao Sikong should not care about being broadcast live. When he opened the secret magic mirror, he saw Hua Tuo sawing Cao Cao's head.