Chapter 184: Promising a Future
Liu Zheng was led by a small guy and walked into the manor.
The Mi family's manor can no longer be described as a manor, more like a small town.
There are many buildings in it, the roads are orderly, and there are even a lot of trees planted, like a garden scenery, just the houses that can accommodate nearly 10,000 people, it looks more prosperous than many small counties.
If Liu Zheng hadn't known that this was the Mi family's manor, he would really think that this was the town outside Xuzhou.
Not long after the little servant led Liu Zheng into the manor, Mi Zhu, who was behind, gradually accelerated his pace and kept up with Liu Zheng and the others.
After coming to Liu Zheng's side, Mi Zhu took the initiative to talk to Liu Zheng.
"Look at your appearance, it doesn't look like people around here, my unsuccessful second brother said that you were in Poyang Lake before, intercepted our goods, could it be that you are water thieves in Poyang Lake?"
In fact, at this time, Mi Zhu had already learned from Mi Fang's mouth that Liu Zheng and the others were the water thieves who robbed their goods in the first place, but Mi Zhu was not good at opening his mouth directly, so he could only use this kind of doubtful rhetorical question to test.
"Yes, we are here from Poyang Lake, this time we came to you to find the master of the Mizhu family, in fact, firstly, to return the goods that were plundered to you last time, return them to Zhao, return them to the original owners, and return them to you, and secondly, I also want to come to make friends with the master of the Mizhu family."
Since Liu Zheng came here for the purpose of making friends with Mi Zhu, he naturally couldn't directly say his true thoughts, although he wanted to cooperate with Mi Zhu in business operations, but the other party didn't trust him and didn't know him at present.
If he said his purpose, Mi Zhu would not necessarily agree, Liu Zheng thought that he would talk about a few words first, so that the two sides would have enough understanding before talking about these things, and the chance of success would be greater.
"Returning the goods and making friends with our Mi family, I'm afraid it's not so simple."
"Oh? How so? ”
"If it's just to return the goods, why bother with such fanfare, just send some people to return the goods to my Mi family, and why bother the adults to come here in person, presumably the adults must have another purpose here."
Liu Zhengben also wanted to hide his purpose, and wanted to be close to Mi Zhu.
Who knew that Mi Zhu saw through at a glance that these people had another purpose for coming here, so he simply stopped hiding it and chatted with Mi Zhu directly.
"The head of the Mizhu family is really a smart person, and he saw through at a glance that I came here for another purpose, since you have seen through it, then I will tell you directly, I will introduce you to the two people behind me first."
After Liu Zheng finished speaking, he looked at Zu Lang, and Zu Lang and Mi Zhu actually knew each other, even if they hadn't met, Mi Zhu must have heard of Zu Lang's name.
"This person's name is Zu Lang, maybe the head of the Mi Zhu family knows, he is one of the four major water thieves in Poyang Lake, before your Mi family's merchant ships were paid under Zu Lang, he can ensure that your merchant ships walk unhindered in Poyang Lake."
"Walking without hindrance? Didn't my second brother just rob a batch of goods a few days ago? ”
Mi Zhu looked at Liu Zheng with interest, and he was clearly saying that Liu Zheng was playing some tricks, robbing his family's goods with the front foot, and sending things back with the back foot, and now he said that he was walking unhindered.
Liu Zheng knew that Mi Zhu definitely didn't know the inside story, so he simply told him about it.
"Zu Lang is now my person, he robbed your goods before, and now he can be regarded as returning to the original owner, and there is not a lot of anything, in the future, your Mi family's merchant ships can still travel on the Poyang Lake level, and we can buy money for the road without charging a penny."
As soon as Liu Zheng said this, Mi Zhu and Mi Fang, who was standing next to Mi Zhu, immediately showed a trace of surprise on their faces.
Zu Lang's strength, Mi Zhu and others are still clear, in Poyang Lake, Zu Lang, who is known as one of the four major water thieves, has thousands of water thieves under his command, even if there are some small counties, there may not be so many people to fight.
And Liu Zheng actually said that now Zu Lang is his person, doesn't he mean that he is even more powerful than Zu Lang.
If it weren't for this, when they saw Zu Lang standing behind Liu Zheng obediently like this, they really wouldn't believe what Liu Zheng said.
What surprised them even more was that Liu Zheng said that he would exempt them from the Mi family's toll money on this side of Poyang Lake.
Although it is just a passing money, this amount of money is not a small amount, like their Mi family's shipload of goods, worth thousands of gold, of which the profit is only one or two hundred gold.
But half of the cost of it, all kinds of dots, will be consumed.
If it is really as Liu Zheng said, exempting the toll money, then their Mi family's profits will be doubled again.
If you go south to do business a few times a year, you can earn thousands of dollars.
A big family with a big business, thousands of gold, is not a small amount.
"What do you say, you want to exempt our Mi family from the passage money in the waters of Poyang Lake? Is that true? ”
Before Mi Zhu could speak, Mi Fang couldn't help it, and hurriedly asked Liu Zheng again, wanting to ask if what Liu Zheng said was true.
And Liu Zheng nodded and said modestly.
"I can't say that all the toll money in the waters of Poyang Lake, as long as it is my territory, I can not take any money from you. And I can make sure of your arrangement, if your Mi merchant ships are compatible, I can send a fleet to protect you from other pirates. ”
"Even, I am already opening up the water channel from Poyang Lake to Dongting Lake, in the future, your Mi family can not only do business in Yangzhou, but also do business to Jingzhou, Jingzhou's products are not much inferior to Yangzhou, if you can win the market in Jingzhou, I am afraid that the Mi family's wealth can go to a higher level."
Liu Zheng opened his mouth and first promised a grand plan to the people of the Mi family.
Let them see the benefits, give themselves and them cooperation, and leave some expectations.
Sure enough, as soon as Liu Zheng's words were spoken, Mi Fang's eyes immediately showed a trace of excitement.
I was about to say something, but I was interrupted by Mi Zhu's sudden opening.
"In this case, it is indeed a beautiful thing, but who is Your Excellency, and why is it so sure?"
Mi Zhu was actually moved by Liu Zheng's words, but he didn't believe Liu Zheng's words so easily, at this time, he had put all his curiosity on Liu Zheng's body, he was eager to know Liu Zheng's identity, only by knowing Liu Zheng's identity, Mi Zhu could consider what Liu Zheng said, whether it was true or false.
"It doesn't matter who I am, the important thing is that I can bring a good future to your Mi family."