The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

Xuzhou's Mi family is the only family in the south in terms of commercial activities, and although the Zhen family and the Su family are also business leaders, their main business scope is in the north.

There is basically no communication between the two parties, but if the Zhen family wants to expand their business territory to the south, then it is a very good way to cooperate with the Mi family.

Only by cooperating with the Mi family to make money together, giving most of the profits to the Mi family, and the Zhen family following behind to make some money, can the Zhen family's market be gradually expanded to the south.

After all, the business scopes of the Mi family and the Zhen family are different. The Mi family mainly focuses on silk and tea, while the Zhen family mainly focuses on salt and iron, and occasionally sells horses. These things can complement each other.

The Zhen family had no connections before, but now they just met someone from the Mi family, so they naturally wanted to take a good look at it.

It's just that the manager of the Su family doesn't have much say in this matter, not as powerful as Zhen Yaolai, the third master of the Zhen family, so even if the Su family is interested, they are embarrassed to keep Liu Zheng.

After walking out of Zhuangzi, Zhen Yao directly invited Liu Zheng to be a guest at Zhen's house, so that he, the landlord, could show his friendship to the landlord.

After all, coming to Wuji County is equivalent to coming to their Zhen family's territory.

This was Liu Zheng's goal. After Zhen Yao asked, there was no possibility of him refusing.

After accepting Zhen Yao's invitation, Liu Zheng took Dian Wei and Guo Jia to Zhen's house together.

The Zhen family is considered a big family. In Wuji County, it has been passed down for several generations. It is definitely one of the few big families.

Except that they have a huge house in Wuji County.

There is also an extremely grand Wubao outside Wuji County.

Similar to the huge Wubao that the Mi family had in Xuzhou back then.

To put it nicely, it is called Wubao, but to put it badly, it is actually a small town.And it is a town that is not under the jurisdiction of the imperial court.

It can accommodate thousands of people.

On the one hand, it is the trilogy recruited by the Zhen family, and on the other hand, there are also tenant farmers who rely on the Zhen family to survive.

After all, a wealthy family like the Zhen family has some private soldiers and servants under them. It is quite normal to have servants. Back then, the Mi family had tens of thousands of servants in Xuzhou.

The Zhen family is not much worse than the Mi family. Although they don't have tens of thousands of servants, they still have thousands of servants.

The magnificent Wubao is located not far outside Wuji County.

Zhen Yao led Liu Zheng and others into Wubao from outside Wubao. His status as the third master of the Zhen family is still very useful. He directly led Liu Zheng's people to the living room and waited for the current head of the Zhen family to come over.

When I first arrived at the living room, several women came out of the courtyard of the Zhen family.

The older one is only sixteen or seventeen years old, and the younger one is about eight or nine years old.

"Third brother, you are back!"

Among those women, the older one yelled at Zhen Yao.

After Liu Zheng and the others heard the woman's words, they looked at the woman.

The woman has a handsome appearance, a variety of figures, and a pure and lovely face, which attracts Liu Zheng's attention.

Although this woman's appearance is not perfect, she is definitely the most beautiful among the many women Liu Zheng has seen.

He glanced at the younger one next to the woman again.

His eyes startled again.

That woman was a little younger, but eight or nine years old, and her appearance was even better. Although she was young, her brows and eyes were full of gentleness that made people sink.

His eyes, like those of autumn water, were full of tenderness.

Although he is still young, no one will deny his stunning appearance in the future.

"Third brother."

The little girl called out to Zhen Yao with a voice like a silver bell.

"Hey, why did Mi'er come out today?"

Then Zhen Yao glanced at this slightly younger girl and asked this little girl.

Liu Zheng, who was standing beside him, realized immediately after hearing Zhen Yao's words that the little girl in front of her would be Zhen Mi, the god of Luo, who would fight Cao Cao's two sons and brothers in the future.

He originally came here with the intention of meeting the famous beauty Zhen Mi in the Three Kingdoms, but he never expected that the current Zhen Mi is actually just a little lolita.

"I finished reading today, so I went out with my sisters for a walk."

"It's true that you should go out and walk more. What do girls like to read so much? Reading should be a boy's business."

Zhen Yao seemed to love his younger sister very much, even if he had some complaints against Zhen Mi, he would not tell Zhen Mi face to face, but just kindly reminded her at such times.

"Third brother, I heard from second brother that you just brought back some horses and we want to ride them."

The sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl said something to Zhen Yao. Zhen Yao didn't think much about talking to them at the moment. After all, Liu Zheng was still present. In front of an outsider like Liu Zheng, their brother and sister There are also many things that cannot be said directly.

"You go to the eldest brother, the third brother has guests to entertain."

Liu Zheng and the others are still here, so Zhen Yao naturally doesn't want to talk to his younger sisters.

The older girl raised her mouth at Zhen Yao and snorted softly.

He ignored Zhen Yao and left here with his younger sisters.

After the girls left, Zhen Yao turned around and apologized to Liu Zheng.

"Brother Mi, I'm sorry, these are my younger sisters, I was really sorry just now."

"It's okay, I think Brother Zhen is blessed, after all, there are several such beautiful younger sisters, and they will surely bring some good son-in-laws to the Zhen family in the future."

"Hehe, Brother Mi was joking, come in and sit down, my second brother Zhen Yan will come over to entertain you soon."

As Zhen Yao spoke, he began to lead the way for Liu Zheng and others, and walked into the living room.

Although the Zhen family is a rich family, this Wubao is a bit old, and everything in the house seems to be old. After Zhen Yao led Liu Zheng and others into the house, he ordered his servants to serve tea.

Liu Zheng didn't dare to drink directly, but after sitting down, he started to give Zhen Yao a wink, telling Zhen Yao to retreat these servants.

Chapter 876 Yuan Xi's Visit

Zhen Yao is also a smart person. After understanding what Liu Zheng meant, he waved his hand.

"You go down first."

"Yes, third master."

After the servants heard Zhen Yao's words, they immediately left the living room one after another.

After the servants left the living room, Liu Zheng raised the teacup in his hand.

He glanced at Zhen Yao, then lowered his voice a little.

"Brother Zhen Yao, in fact, I came to Wuji County this time to purchase some horses, but I have another idea, that is, to meet the people of the Zhen family."

"Oh? Brother Mi came here to find our Zhen family. Is there something wrong?"

"Brother Zhen should understand that my Mi family's business has always been in the south, mainly in Jingzhou, Yangzhou and other places. Although I intend to dabble in the northern market, but the north has never been in the hands of His Majesty Liu Zheng. The Yuan family's territory, we It’s not easy for the Mi family’s caravan to enter here.”

"So we want to cooperate with business families in the north to make money and make a fortune together."

Although the purpose of Liu Zheng's coming to Jizhou was to win over these Jizhou families so as to disturb the situation in Jizhou, but he didn't have a special understanding of the situation in Jizhou.

Only by probing a little bit can we grasp the situation of the Zhen family and the others.

"Brother Mi intends to cooperate with our Zhen family?"

As soon as Zhen Yao heard Liu Zheng's words, he immediately showed a hint of surprise. He invited Liu Zheng to come to the Wubao of Zhen's family, just to ask Liu Zheng about the situation in the south.

Their Zhen family has been doing business in the north. The population base in the north is not large, and the business is not dominated by their Zhen family. There are also Su family, Zhang family and other families robbing part of the market.

Therefore, in order to expand the Zhen family's industry, Zhen Yao has always wanted to send his business to the south, but the differences between the north and the south are obvious, and now they are owned by different princes. The tariffs on each checkpoint alone are not enough. A small sum.

What's more, once the ruler knows that they are caravans from different princes, it is not easy to do something, and they will easily be arrested as spies.

But if the Zhen family cooperates with the Mi family, it will not be a problem. The Mi family can be said to be the absolute business overlord under Liu Zheng. Forget about other things.

In this way, the risk becomes much smaller, although the profit is also less, but as long as enough profit can be obtained from it, it can still be made up over time.

So hearing Liu Zheng say this, Zhen Yao actually agrees in his heart.

"I really intend to cooperate with the Zhen family. After all, your two businesses do not conflict with each other. I can sell tea, silk, ceramics and other items from the south to the north. And your Zhen family can also sell the rock mass in the north, War horses. Cattle and sheep are sold to the south.”

"Mutual benefit, you and I both benefit."

If it is true what Liu Zheng said.

One trade can earn thousands of gold. How could such a trade not impress Zhen Yao?

Not to mention Zhen Yao, even the head of the Zhen family, Zhen Yan, who heard Liu Zheng's words at the moment, was very interested in the cooperation between the Mi family and the Zhen family.

"Brother Mi's words are serious. In fact, when I invited Brother Mi to come to Zhen's house as a guest, I also wanted to have a chat with Brother Mi, to see if there is any possibility for us to cooperate and make money together."

"It's just that Brother Mi has already mentioned it before I said it."

Zhen Yao is currently worrying about raising food, if what Liu Zheng said is true.Then they are likely to be able to transport a large amount of grain and grass from the south through Liu Zheng.

In this way, they can solve their immediate urgent needs.

After hearing Liu Zheng's words, Zhen Yao became more interested, and began to discuss with Liu Zheng carefully what this cooperation could bring to both parties.

Of course, this is mainly because Zhen Yao is saying that Liu Zheng is listening. After all, Zhen Yao also wants to persuade Liu Zheng to make this happen together.

Compared with the Mi family's desire to expand their business means to the north, what Zhen Yao wants more is to sell things from the north to the south.

Of course, while the Mi family and Liu Zheng were still discussing whether to cooperate, an unexpected visitor came outside the Mi family's dock.

Yuan Xi, the current lord of Jizhou, came here on a horse, accompanied by these cronies.

Yuan Xi is now the actual controller of the entire Youzhou and most of Jizhou, although compared to his elder brother Yuan Tan, Yuan Xi's subordinates do not have elite soldiers.Most of the generals under him rely on the generals of those Karasuma people.

Compared with his third younger brother Yuan Shang, Yuan Xi did not have many counselors to assist him.

But Yuan Xi has his Yuan Xi's advantages, civil servants are assisted by Tian Feng, and military generals have a large number of military generals from Karasuma people, which is quite satisfactory.In terms of strength, both Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang are superior.

Only in this way could Yuan Xi defeat Yuan Tan in a short period of time and occupy most of Jizhou.

However, Yuan Xi encountered a little difficulty recently. Last winter, the harvest in Youzhou was not good, and many tribes of Karasuma people lacked food.Yuan Xi distributed all the food stored by his men to these Karasuma people.

But it was precisely because of this that he was supported by the people of Karasuma.

Only then can he gain some advantages in the battle with Yuan Tan.

But after the spring plowing, the little food and grass left by his men was exhausted.

There is an urgent shortage of food and grass.

As a last resort, he could only ask for food from aristocratic families near Jizhou.

A few days ago, he had sent someone to Wuji County and talked to the Zhen family, and now he personally visited and urged him.

One is to win over the relationship with the Zhen family, and the other is to urge the Zhen family to raise the food they want as soon as possible.

In order to show friendship, this time Yuan Xi came to visit in person and did not bring a large army.He just brought a few of his cronies.

Then Tian Feng will accompany him, so that he can have a good chat with the members of the Zhen family.

When Yuan Xi arrived outside the Wubao of the Zhen family, he happened to see the little girls of the Zhen family walking out of the Wubao.

These little girls are naturally Zhen Yao's younger sisters.

They heard that Zhen Yao had brought some horses from the Su family, so they wanted to practice horse riding. They just got a few ponies from Zhen Yan, and they planned to practice outside Wubao. Yuan Xi approached from the outside.

Yuan Xi's eyes fell on these young girls, and there was a hint of lewdness in his eyes, especially when he was moved by the appearance of the sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl.

Yuan Xi stepped forward immediately.

"Girls, is this Zhenjiawu Castle?"

Chapter 877

Although Zhen Yi, the old head of the Zhen family, died young, he left behind many heirs.

The ancients, after all, didn't have so many entertainment items. If they had free time, they could only do things between men and women at night.

So it is normal to have more children.

Zhen Yi has a total of eight children.

The eldest son died young.

The second son, Zhen Yan, was filial and honest in his early years, and held a small position in the general's mansion, and later inherited the position of head of the family after Zhen Yi's death.

The third son, Zhen Yao, also once raised Xiaolian, but he was unlucky. He caught up with the last few years of the Han Dynasty. Even if he raised Xiaolian, it was useless, and Jizhou was occupied by Yuan Shao.