Shu Han Confucian General of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 111
"Sister?" Zhen Mi, who followed Zhao Feng back home, suddenly found her sister Zhen Jiang suddenly appeared at home.

"Ma'am, is something wrong?" Zhao Feng saw that Zhen Jiang's expression was not right, and there were obvious signs of crying on his face, so he asked quickly,

Hearing this, Zhen Jiang turned to look at Zhao Feng, then at Zhen Mi, and finally said with difficulty: "Little sister, grandpa passed away!"

"What?" Zhen Mi was taken aback when she heard the words, and then her eyes went dark as if the world was spinning, and she collapsed on the ground. Zhao Feng hurriedly supported her, and at the same time stopped Zhen Jiang, who was about to call for a doctor, and said, "It's just that I'm too sad, don't you?" It's in the way." While talking, he hugged Zhen Mi to the side and put it down, pinched her and rubbed her palm.Not long after, Zhen Mi woke up leisurely, looked at the anxious elder sister in front of her, and burst into tears with a "wow", "Sister, I want grandpa!"

"Little sister, grandpa has already gone!" Zhen Jiang tried to comfort her while holding back her tears.Zhen Mi cried so hard that the sky was really dark, and she didn't fall asleep until she was exhausted from crying.Zhen Jiang carried her into the room and covered her with a quilt, then closed the door for her with a soft sigh and came out quietly.

"Ma'am, don't be too sad!" Zhao Feng patted Zhen Jiang's shoulder to comfort him, and Zhen Jiang nodded slightly, and sat down with him.

"Is there anything else?" Zhao Feng asked suddenly, but Zhen Jiang looked at her husband in surprise after hearing the words, nodded after a long while, and said with a self-deprecating smile: "I should have known that I couldn't hide it from my husband." , but it’s not a big deal.”

"It must be a family property dispute after the old man passed away." Zhao Feng speculated.Not to mention the rich and powerful families like the Zhen family, even those ordinary families often have troubles because of the distribution of inheritance. This kind of thing is common.

"Although my husband's expectation is not all, it is not far away." Zhen Jiang sighed, and then explained the reason to Zhao Feng in detail.It turns out that Zhen Fei has two sons under his knees, the eldest son is Zhen Jiang and Zhen Bin, the father of Zhen Mi, and the second son is Zhen Zheng.Zhen Bin had passed away many years ago, but Zhen Zheng was an official in Hebei, and was one of Yuan Shao's chief bookkeepers.Now that Zhen Fei has passed away, Zhen Bin's descendants have only one youngest son, so the family property is basically inherited by Zhen Zheng.

"If he inherits, he will inherit." Zhao Feng listened to Zhen Jiang explaining the ins and outs, and commented casually. As soon as the words came out, he knew that things might not be so simple.

Sure enough, Zhen Jiang continued: "The second uncle has taken over all the properties of the Zhen family in Hebei, but I have always been in charge of the properties in Xuzhou and Jiangdong. Now the second uncle wants to take back this part of the property. Not only that, he also Send someone to urge the younger sister to marry the second son of the Yuan family as soon as possible. Just now, I just sent away the person he sent."

"So?" Zhao Feng was a little surprised when he heard this, and then speculated: "Ma'am, your second uncle probably has a lot of ambitions, not only wanting to inherit the family business, but also wanting to make a fortune under the command of General Yuan! "Speaking of this, Zhao Feng couldn't help but despise Zhen Zheng's character. His old man was still alive and busy fighting for the family business. He even forced his niece to marry for his own benefit. This is too much.

"Second uncle has been an official for many years, so naturally the more he does it, the more he wants to do it." Zhen Jiang said lightly, and then said with some concern: "At present, the Zhen family's properties in Xuzhou and Jiangdong only account for less than [-]% of the total. Going against Second Uncle, I'm afraid I might not be able to support it."

"Don't be afraid, there is still the Mi family. As long as you join forces with the Mi family, I don't believe that your second uncle can do anything in the three states of Xuyuyang." Zhao Feng comforted.He knew that Zhen's shop mainly bought grain and salt in the three states under Liu Bei's rule, but sold horses, which are special northern products.As long as you pinch his supply, you don't have to worry about him not giving in.Zhen Jiang frowned when he heard the words, and finally said: "The Mi family is outsiders after all, if we join forces with them, I'm afraid that my second uncle will say that I am an unworthy descendant of the Zhen family." He turned his head to look at Zhao Feng, until he was about to look at him, and then said: "It's better to join forces with the Zhao family."

"The Zhao family?" Zhao Feng was taken aback when he heard the words, and after thinking about it, he was a little unsure and said: "You mean that I am sworn brother, the Zhao family of Zhao Yu, the prefect of Kuaiji?"

"That's right!" Zhen Jiang nodded.Looking at Zhao Feng's unbelievable expression, Zhen Jiang knew that he didn't know the details of the situation, so he simply told him clearly: "You don't know how rich your big brother is now, since you came to Kuaiji , he opened a field to dry salt, and his family property has doubled several times in the past year, and now he is not far behind the Mi family."

"Damn, he's so rich now?" Zhao Feng was really unexpected this time, Zhen Jiang gave him a white look and said: "Your elder brother is still very interesting to you, and the bonus of selling salt every month is still divided." Thirty percent for you, and Mi Zizhong's bonus for selling wine is no more than [-]% for you. It's just that you are busy with military affairs and don't take care of housework all day, husband, I don't know, but I will take care of it for you."

"Dizzy, we are also rich by accident!" Zhao Feng felt a little dizzy.Although they knew that Zhao Yu and Mi Zhu had spent a lot of money to build a good relationship with him, they didn't expect that they were so rich now.

"Since that's the case, I'll write to my elder brother right away to let the Zhao family's store unite with the store under your name, madam, to boycott your second uncle!" Zhao Feng assured, patting his chest.Only then did Zhen Jiang look a little better, but then he still frowned and said, "Leaving aside the matter of the second uncle, what about the younger sister?"

"Sister, just tell the second uncle that grandpa has passed away, and I, Zhen Mi, will keep mourning for grandpa for three years and will never marry during this period!" Zhen Mi, who was standing at the door at some time, said immediately, ignoring Zhao Feng after speaking. With a look of astonishment on his face, He Zhen Jiang turned around and ran into his room.

"That's the only way to go!" Zhen Jiang sighed.Zhao Feng saw that she was still a little worried, so he quickly comforted her: "Madam, don't worry, it's hard to know whether the Yuan family will still be here in three years, so why are you so anxious?" Zhen Jiang didn't say anything this time. It is generally predicted that Yuan Shao will lose, but Yuan Shao really lost.Now he is not optimistic about the Yuan family. From Zhen Jiang's point of view, the Yuan family is probably going to die.

A few days later, Zhao Feng received a reply from his cheap brother, in which Zhao Yu told him that when he sold salt to Zhen Zheng in the future, he would guarantee that the price would be at least [-]% to [-]% higher than that sold to Zhen Jiang.At the same time, he also told Zhao Feng that the small salt field in Nantong was given to him.Zhao Yu even asked him to help Liu Bei resign from the post of Kuaiji prefect and change to Kuaiji county magistrate, so that he would have more time to sell salt and sell money.Zhao Feng really couldn't laugh or cry when he received the letter, this big brother is really too speechless.

While Zhao Feng and Zhen Jiang were busy with their business, Gan Ning had already arrived at Lujiang.At the same time, it was reported carefully that Cai Mao had sent people to attack Li Yan in Nanyang, and Liu Biao had also fled to Jiangxia.Under such circumstances, even if Liu Biao had not made an agreement to discuss the Cai family and the Kuai family together, Zhao Feng could not just sit back and watch Li Yan be trapped in Fancheng, and let Gan Ning lead the navy from Xiangshui to support Li Yan.Of course, in order to prevent misunderstanding, he still had to say hello to Liu Biao when he passed Xiangshui. Gan Ning hurriedly led his army to go after hearing the words.

"Father!" Liu Biao had just stepped down from Jiangxia's pier when Liu Qi, who had been waiting for a long time, hurried up to greet him, his tone choked up.

"Qi'er!" Liu Biao looked at his son, and sighed with emotion even after he survived the catastrophe. "My lord, General Liu Pan has gone to the four counties in Jingnan to pack up the troops. As long as the troops and horses are ready, we can attack Cai Mao's rebels! Jiangxia is adjacent to the front line, so my lord should retreat to Lingling first, just to be safe!" Wait until Liu Biao arrives Sitting firmly in Jiangxia's prefect's mansion, Yiji stepped forward to remonstrate.

"No need!" Liu Biao snorted coldly, and then said proudly, "I can just stay here, but it would be too flattering for those idiots like Cai Mao to want me to escape to Jingnan."

"My lord?" Wang Wei couldn't help being a little surprised when he saw that Liu Biao had suddenly recovered a bit of his youthful pride, but it was more of a surprise.At this time, a small school came to report that Gan Ning, the general of the Xuzhou navy, had come to visit.

"General Gan!" Liu Biao said hastily.Soon Gan Ning came in a hurry, "I have seen Liu Jingzhou!" Gan Ning saluted, and Liu Biao even said that there is no need to be polite. "I don't know why General Gan came to visit, why?" Liu Biao seemed to have guessed something, and asked quickly.

"It's not for anything else. It's just that Li Zhengfang, the prefect of Nanyang, is being attacked by Cai Mao. Prefect Li has no more than [-] troops. My general is worried that he will be outnumbered. The special general led [-] sailors to go to reinforcements via Xiangshui. Jingzhou borrowed Daoer!" Gan Ning replied honestly.

Liu Biao hesitated a little when he heard the words, but he quickly replied: "That's right! General, please go ahead." Then Gan Ning bid farewell to Liu Biao, and hurriedly led the navy to go north. Liu Biao also sent Su Fei, the deputy commander of the navy, to lead ten thousand Jing. Xiangshui division went to help the battle.

"Father, with Uncle Liu Huang's help, we will put down Cai Mao and Kuai Yue's two thieves, Yi Er!" Liu Qi also said excitedly.Liu Biao looked at his somewhat innocent son, and sighed softly in his heart.

At the same time in Shouchun City, "Meet Uncle Liu Huang!" Zhuge Liang looked at the middle-aged man in his 40s after saluting, and he could hardly feel the aura of being a hegemon from him, as if he was just like an ordinary middle-aged man. People are no different.

"Sir, you don't need to be too polite. I've heard Shi Yuan and Yuan Zhi talk about your name a long time ago. It's really shocking!" Liu Bei looked at the young man in front of him and laughed, Zhuge Liang even said he didn't dare to do it.After a few words of politeness from both parties, Liu Bei got straight to the point and asked, "Sir, you are from Jingzhou. I don't know how the situation in Jingzhou is. Is Brother Jing Sheng safe?"

Zhuge Liang nodded, and described the current situation in Jingzhou, and briefly described the major forces in Jingzhou by the way.Jingzhou originally had five major families, namely Cai, Kuai, Huang, Ma and Pang.The Cai family and the Kuai family are the most powerful among the five major families. The representative of the Cai family is naturally Cai Mao, and the original patriarch of the Kuai family was Kuai Liang, who was succeeded by his younger brother Kuai Yue after his death a few years ago.

"Although the Kuai brothers are resourceful people, Kuai Liang has always kept his secrets, while Kuai Yue is unavoidably showing his sharpness. If Kuai Liang is still around, he might not dare to do such a rebellious thing." Zhuge Liang said simply.

"What about the other three clans now?" Liu Bei continued to ask.He had also heard Pang Tong talk about the five major families, but he didn't inquire about it in detail at the time.The Kuai family and the Cai family have made it clear that they are going to fight against Liu Biao, so I don't know what will happen to the three families.

"Difficult!" Zhuge Liang also sighed softly, and then explained in detail: "Since Cai Mao and Liu Biao got married, they have united with the Kuai family brothers and used their in-laws to exclude these three families. The power of the three families was originally inferior to that of the Cai family and the Kuai family. The branches and leaves are withered. The head of the Huang family is Liang's father-in-law, Huang Chengyan. Now he has retired to the mountains and forests without caring about worldly affairs, and few of his family's children are out of office. In the Pang family, Pang Degong, the head of the family, is the family teacher, and the most outstanding son of the family is Pang Shiyuan. Although the three families can be regarded as the Jingxiang family, they are far from the Cai family and the Kuai family. "

"So that's it!" Liu Bei nodded again and again when he heard this, and then speculated: "In other words, if we only rely on these three families, brother Jing Sheng will not be able to put down traitors like Cai Mao and Kuai Yue?"

"Exactly! Besides, these three families have many in-laws with the Kuai family and the Cai family, so they may not be able to contribute to Liu Jingsheng. Therefore, Mr. Liu Qi sent Liang to connect with the emperor's uncle." Zhuge nodded.

"What is Mr. Unknown's job now?" Liu Bei suddenly changed the subject and asked.

"Bright and ignorant, now he is white." Zhuge Liang was also slightly taken aback when he heard the words, and then smiled.

"Right now, Shouchun lacks a county magistrate, is Mr. Unknown willing to give in?" Liu Bei asked with deep meaning.Shouchun is Liu Bei's governing place, and he was appointed as the magistrate of Shouchun County. Naturally, he will be inseparable with Liu Bei in case of consultation.

Zhuge Liang also smiled slightly when he heard the words, and then got up and said: "Dare you not to serve the emperor!" This year is the sixth year of Jian'an, 201 AD, which is a full six years earlier than Zhuge Liang came out of the mountain in history.

(End of this chapter)