When Liu Zheng heard about the Zhen family, he remembered that there was also a big business in Jizhou, the Zhen family.

During the Three Kingdoms period, there were several well-known business families, such as the Xuzhou Mi family under Liu Zheng, the Jiangdong Lu family, the Chen Liuwei family, and the Hebei Zhen family.

These families are different from those big families, most of them are backers in the court, or people with backgrounds, the most poor, there is no backer in the court, and the ancestor must be a big man, but now the family is in the middle of the road.

But these families have no backing, and they are not mainly engaged in politics, and their families are mostly in business.

The people of these families are mainly engaged in business, and they are all in the business area, and they are doing very well.

Even when they have done a good job in business and made enough money, they will start to find ways to improve their political status and invest in those princes with potential.

The Sun family of Dongwu invested by the Lu family in Jiangdong, the Mi family of Xuzhou invested in Liu Bei, Cao Cao, who was the first to be funded by the Wei family, and the person invested by the Zhen family in Hebei was Yuan Shao.

Although Yuan Shao is a son of a big family born in the fourth world and the third prince, Yuan Shao himself has not been able to get much funding from the Yuan family, and most of the wealth of the Yuan family has been left to Yuan Shu, after all, when Yuan Shao went north to Jizhou, the Yuan family was located in Runan, and he could not touch Yuan Shao's territory at all.

And Yuan Shao must also have a strong consortium behind him, otherwise Yuan Shao would not be able to stop a few wars at all and would be impoverished.

Just like in the early days of Liu Zheng, there were no resources, everything relied on plundering and robbery.

But Yuan Shao can't do it, he is the fourth and third dukes, and he has to take care of his reputation, and Liu Zheng has nothing to take care of these reputations, so he can develop to the extent he has today.

After knowing that it was the Zhen family who supported the Yuan family behind him, Liu Zheng decided to talk to the Zhen family first.

If you don't go over to talk to the Zhen family, you can't go blatantly, otherwise, the Yuan family brothers will know, but I'm afraid that Liu Zheng won't have any chance to go back to Xuzhou.

After discussing with Guo Jia and others, Liu Zheng and Guo Jia made up their minds.

If you want to go to the Zhen family, talk to the people of the Zhen family, and go with a large army, it will definitely not work.

Therefore, Liu Zheng wanted to have an identity, pretending to be a businessman, going to Jizhou, and only bringing a small number of people.

Since on the one hand, he could not send a large army, so Liu Zheng could only let the Jinyi guards around him pretend to be some servants, and then disguise himself as a traveling merchant who was doing business and went to Jizhou.

At the same time, Tai Shici and Xu Huang were asked to temporarily withdraw their troops and retreat from Qingzhou to the boundary of Xuzhou.

In this way, on the one hand, it can give the Yuan brothers in Jizhou some signals to prove that Liu Zheng's men and horses have withdrawn. On the other hand, it is also good for Liu Zheng and others to reduce some resistance to Jizhou.

And so it was two days later.

Liu Zheng took Guo Jia, Dian Wei and other hundreds of brocade guards, and quietly left the camp for Jizhou at night.

The journey from Qingzhou to Jizhou is not too far.

However, they did not use too many horses to disguise themselves as merchants, so they had to rely mostly on foot, and the distance they covered in a day was limited.

It took half a month to come from Qingzhou to the Jizhou boundary.

Of course, this is also to bypass Yuan Jun in Jizhou. After all, there is a war going on in this place, and although the two brothers have stopped fighting, the atmosphere is still in a time of war.

There are a lot of these people around him, and if they appear in a crowded place, it is easy to attract the attention of others.

In order to avoid these situations, he deliberately took the trails that no one walked.

After all, whether it was caught by either Yuan Tan or Yuan Xi, it was not a good thing.

A few days later, he appeared in Zhongshan with his men.

Zhongshan Kingdom, in fact, existed very early.

In fact, the earliest was not established by the Han people, but the country established by the Xianyu people, because there were mountains in the city and got the name of the country. It has gone through three stages of development, Rong Di, Xianyu and Zhongshan, and at each stage, it was regarded as a major problem in China by the Central Plains countries, and also experienced the stages of Xinghou fighting, Jin Hou fighting Xianyu, Wei destroying Zhongshan and Zhao destroying Zhongshan.

Later, in the Han Dynasty, both the Western Han and Eastern Han Dynasty placed the Zhongshan Kingdom.

During the Western Han Dynasty, Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty was divided into the eastern part of Changshan County and placed Zhongshan Kingdom, and the prince Liu Sheng was named the king of Zhongshan. This Liu Sheng is the ancestor that Liu Bei often talks about, after Liu Sheng, the king of Zhongshan.

Later, when Wang Mang usurped the Han Dynasty, Zhongshan Kingdom was abolished, and during the Eastern Han Dynasty, Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu canonized his son Liu Mao as the King of Zhongshan, so that Zhongshan Kingdom had it again, but Liu Mao passed on to the end more than ten years ago, and this Zhongshan Kingdom was removed from the name, and it is now called Zhongshan County.

When he went to Zhongshan County to meet these people of the Zhen family, Liu Zheng had already asked his Jinyi guards to find out some of the situation of the Zhen family in advance.

The Zhen family is still a relatively large family in Zhongshan Kingdom.

Of course, the so-called big is only a relatively large business scope, not that his family is a prestigious family in the entire Jizhou, but it has many servants like the Mi family, and occupies a larger place, but there is no backer in the imperial court.

The Zhen family relied on strong financial resources to develop the family, and now they also want to change.

What Liu Zhengda heard was that the current head of the family was named Zhen Yan.

That is, the second brother of the famous Luo Shen Zhen Mi in history.

The Zhen family only made a fortune in Zhongshan County a few decades ago, and the previous head of the family, Zhen Yi, used to be the county magistrate of Shangcai County, and later returned to Zhongshan to gradually grow the family mainly in business.

The ancestor of the Zhen family is actually a big official in the court, in the era of Wang Mang's usurpation of the Han Dynasty, he used to be an official in the Great Sima, but now that so many years have passed, the family has fallen a little.

Zhen Yi is not suitable for officialdom, so after resigning, he devoted himself to doing business at home, and spread the Zhen family's business throughout Jizhou and Youzhou.

Although the wealth of the Zhen family cannot be said to be rich, it is definitely one of the best in Jizhou.

After Yuan Shao occupied Jizhou at the beginning, it was because of the support of the Zhen family that Yuan Shao was able to worry about funds in a short period of time.

And it is precisely because of the Yuan family to protect the Zhen family on the bright side that they were able to continue to grow themselves in just a few years, and for a time their business not only did it in Youzhou, but also expanded to Karasuma, Xianbei and other places in the north.

The business of the entire north, including salt, iron, and horse sales, was involved in the Zhen family.

Relying on the grain and grass collected from the interior to sell to the grassland to obtain horses, and then selling the horses from the north to the Central Plains, in this way, there is a difference of several times or even dozens of times back and forth, so that the Zhen family has grown rapidly and its wealth has skyrocketed in just a few decades.

However, the Zhen family's life has not been good recently.