The Rise of the Song People of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 257
In a great battle, the barbarians were killed and scattered, and the danger of Tancheng was naturally lifted. As the Lord of Jingnan and Fang Baihua invited reinforcements, Sun Ce was naturally invited into Tancheng.

Fang La and the others met Sun Ce and others in the Fang Mansion, and Fang Baihua acted as an intermediary to naturally introduce the two parties, including the already acquainted Fang Jinzhi, Li Tianrun, Pang Wanchun, Pang Qiuxia, Fang Jie, Fang Tiandingwai, and Fang Qifo, Fang Hou, and Si Xingfang. , Li Tianyou.

Sun Ce was invited to the throne, and all of Sun Ce's generals were also Fang La's distinguished guests. Zhou Yu, Lu Su, Chen Wu, Xing Daorong, Huang Gai, Han Dang, Qin Song, Chen Duan and others were all honored as distinguished guests.

Fang La, who was relieved of the crisis of Tancheng, was very happy, and even drank wine frequently when he saw Sun Ce. Sun Ce was the lord of Jingnan, and Fang La was a wealthy businessman in Jingnan. .

Moreover, the status of merchants in this era is very low. Scholars, farmers, industry, and merchants are ranked last. It is not just these four words literally, but a complete chain of contempt.

The gentry look down on merchants very much, but they control the lifeline of the economy. All aristocratic families have their own industries, such as the Lu family in Jiangdong, the Gu family, the Hongnong Yang family, the Yuan family in Runan, and the Lu family in Yangzhou. They almost monopolize the local industries. .

However, these industries are not managed by the core disciples of the Shi family themselves, but are basically managed by reliable family branches or loyal servants.

Therefore, in the eyes of aristocratic families, businessmen are roughly equal to the status of servants or collateral branch families.

But here is also referring to the scholar family, these children of the branch family may turn over, not pure businessmen!

What is a pure businessman?
It is a non-gentry family with no official ancestors in their ancestors, and a family that started purely from businessmen. The policy of suppressing businessmen in the Eastern Han Dynasty did not suppress scholars, but focused on suppressing this group of people.

General celebrities would not accept such businessmen as disciples. Don’t you see that the Mi family in Xuzhou and the Zhen family in Hebei are rich and powerful, but their status in Xuzhou and Hebei is very embarrassing. After the troubled times, Mi Zhu even spent all his wealth to support Liu Bei.

This is why businessmen frequently funded the princes in the early stage, such as Cao Cao and Wei Zi, just to change the fate of the family, and Fang La came under such an environment.

Jingnan produced lacquer trees, and lacquerware was the utensil most used by the aristocracy in the Eastern Han Dynasty except for bronze.

Lacquerware is a craft that appeared as early as ancient times and is often used in all aspects of daily life.

It reached its peak during the Han Dynasty, and some Three Kingdoms games all use lacquerware as some high-value treasures.

And Fang La is the owner of the largest lacquer garden in Jingzhou, and his physical ancestor has even served as an official like the history of the lacquer garden.

This happened a long time ago. Today's Fang family can barely be considered a powerful family. Their ancestors have been merchants for generations and have monopolized the lacquerware industry.

But the Fang family also has difficulties with the Fang family. Although lacquerware is of high value, it is a kind of luxury in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the audience is rich and powerful.

But with the troubled times, everyone is in danger, so there is still time to use lacquerware. Although the Fang family has other industries, it is not as good as lacquerware.

Coupled with years of wars, people in the north were panicked, and because of the enmity between Lu Heng and Sun Ce in Jiangdong, the cost of traveling between the two places was very high.

The trade route to the west is Shu. Since ancient times, it has been difficult to enter Shu. The cost of doing business is extremely high. All the above factors have made life difficult for the Fang family.

Moreover, Fang La is a wealthy family in the south, after the troubled times, he usually needs masters when he is in business, so he naturally recruits people with high martial arts skills.

The two brothers Li Tianrun, Li Tianyou and Si Xingfang were Fang La who had turned to Fang La in the early years, and served as generals and coaches.

Now that Fang Baihua has the honor to invite him, Fang La is very happy to make friends with Sun Ce, a feudal lord.

But Fang La didn't know how great his advantage was. Sun Ce looked at the group of dry generals including Fang Jie, Fang Qifo, Fang Tianding, Li Tianrun, Li Tianyou, Si Xingfang, and Pang Wanchun.

Not to mention that there is Fang Baihua who really makes men drool.

One wanted to make friends, and the other wanted to recruit, and the atmosphere reached its peak.

Fang Baihua also toasted Sun Ce frequently, her beautiful eyes never left Sun Ce.

And Fang Jinzhi was staring at Zhou Yu, but not as bold as Fang Baihua, just peeking from time to time.

Pang Qiuxia looked at the two girls from time to time with agile eyes. The phrase "good girlfriends" is already very obvious, but Sun Ce and Zhou Yu are also really good-looking talents, almost everyone loves them!

Fang Baihua's abnormality was noticed by Pang Qiuxia, and even more by Fang La and Fang Hou. Fang La was thoughtful, and Fang Hou's eyes shone even more!

The atmosphere of the lively party was at its peak. Fang Jie and Fang Tianding, because of family difficulties, the barbarian leader who had returned from the army and beheaded after leaving the army, was motivated by loyalty, and naturally wanted to compete with the reborn Overlord.

For Fang Jie's request, Sun Ce agreed without hesitation. The two were about to attack when Fang Hou stopped them. The reason was that it was a happy day to repel a strong enemy today, so it would be better to use another day.

Fang Hou's good intentions made both Sun Ce and Fang Jie dissatisfied!
Because Sun Ce wanted to show off his martial arts skills in front of everyone, which would be of great benefit to recruiting these warriors.

Fang Jie was naturally dissatisfied because he couldn't fight Sun Ce, but Fang Hou was Fang La's uncle and Fang Jie's grandfather, and Fang Jie didn't dare to do anything wrong.

Sun Ce wanted to recruit everyone, so naturally he would not offend this old man.

After drinking for three rounds, there was a lot of fun all night, but Sun Ce didn't mention recruitment. Sun Ce wanted to recruit everyone's hearts.

In this way, Sun Ce and his group entered the guest room, while Fang La and Fang Hou discussed in the study after the banquet.

"Uncle! What do you think of Sun Ce?"

"La'er, I think Sun Ce is brave and heroic. He dominates Jingnan. He has two great talents, Zhou Yu and Lu Su, who are doing their best to assist him. He is not comparable to Liu Biao, who is about to die."

"What's more, our Fang family has lived in Jingnan for generations, and it is a foregone conclusion under Sun Ce's rule. In the current troubled times, it is better to bet on Sun Ce."

"With the financial support of the Fang family, Sun Ce's strength will be even greater. If he defeats Liu Biao and captures the entire Jingzhou, he might as well compete in the Central Plains one day!"

"But uncle, Sun Ce has repeatedly lost to Lu Heng, if he bets heavily on Sun Ce, what if..."

Fang La didn't continue, obviously worried that Sun Ce would not be the one to win to the end!
"La'er, great changes have taken place since ancient times. In the past, our great ancestor was a ruffian of the first rank, but in the end he became a great treasure."

"What's more, Sun Ce's defeat by Lu Heng is because Jiangdong's climate, location, and harmony are no longer Sun Ce."

"But now that Sun Ce has the full support of Jingnan's wealthy families like me, things are different from what they used to be!"

"Besides, Sun Ce still needs me to help him when he is in need. This will bring huge benefits, otherwise it will be meaningless to lead any princes."

"In order to protect the Fang family, I see that girl Bai Hua has already developed feelings for Sun Ce, and she can marry Jin Zhi to Sun Ce's younger brother Zhou Yu, so even if something bad happens, the Fang family will be able to protect themselves!"

(End of this chapter)