As soon as Yuan Shao died, the three brothers of the Yuan family fought for power with each other, which also affected the Zhen family.

The Zhen family planned to support Yuan Shang who became the young master at the beginning, after all, Yuan Shang had to be in the right position.

However, Yuan Shang didn't have much strength in his own right, and he was soon defeated in the battle with Yuan Tan.

The Zhen family did not participate in the battle of the Yuan family.

has been sitting on the mountain watching the tiger fight, waiting for things to calm down, and then choosing to take refuge in the winner.

It's just that Yuan Tan was not able to occupy any advantage in the competition, and was soon defeated by Yuan Xi.

Yuan Xi already occupies the entire Youzhou, plus the Zhen family's territory is in Zhongshan, Zhongshan is very close to Youzhou. Therefore, the Zhen family had no choice but to slowly submit to Yuan Xi. It is precisely because of the support of the Zhen family that Yuan Xi has no shortage of money and food in a short period of time.

Yuan Xi's attitude towards experts is very different from Yuan Shao's.

Because Yuan Shao still cares about his reputation, he generally doesn't press the Zhen family too hard, and most of the time he just discusses with the Zhen family with a kind attitude.

And Yuan Xike is different, he is in urgent need of money and food, and many times he is pressing the Zhen family step by step. Once the Zhen family resists, it will attract Yuan Xi's anger.

Especially at the beginning, the Zhen family did not choose to support Yuan Xi, but chose to support Yuan Shang.

This caused Yuan Xi to be even more angry with the Zhen family, and often vented his anger in the Zhen family, wantonly robbed the Zhen family of money, grain and grass, and even directly recruited soldiers among the Zhen family's private soldiers.

Just some time ago, he continued to send people to Zhen's house, wanting to ask for 30,000 stone of grain and grass from Zhen's family.

Even the Zhen family, which is rich and rivals the country, can't stand Yuan Xi from asking for it all the time.

So recently, the people of the Zhen family have also been worried.

You can't offend Yuan Xi, after all, this Yuan Xi is now the actual controller of the entire north.

Zhongshan County, Wuji County.

It is close to Changshan County, and it is also the home of the Zhen family.

A few days ago, Yuan Xi gave an order to raise 30,000 stone of grain and grass, which was a big deal for the Zhen family, and Zhen Yan had to take it seriously.

The third brother, Zhen Yao, walked in from outside.

"Second brother."

Zhen Yao yelled at the head of the family, Zhen Yan, interrupting Zhen Yan's thoughts.

"Third brother, you're back. How's the grain going? ”

Because of Yuan Xi's words, Zhen Yao was recently ordered by Zhen Yan to raise grain and grass in nearby states and counties, and now seeing Zhen Yao coming back, Zhen Yan thought that the grain matter had been resolved.

"Second brother, how can we take out 30,000 stone of grain, even if we buy it from nearby states and counties, now this is in chaos, everyone is short of food, we want to get together 30,000 stone of grain and grass, it is not something that can be done in a moment and a half."

"Our Zhen family can't take it, why don't we ask the eldest sister's husband's family?"

Although Zhen Yi died early in his life, he left behind seven children.

The eldest son died young, and there were two sons, as well as four daughters, and the eldest daughter married to the Zhang family, a large family in a neighboring county.

Although their Zhen family does not have so much grain in stock, the Zhang family definitely has it.

Zhen Yan wanted to hit this idea to the Zhang family next door, but Zhen Yao immediately shook his head.

"Second brother, I'm afraid it's not so easy, the Zhang family was also bullied by Yuan Xi, the Zhang family supported Yuan Tan, Yuan Xi didn't directly deal with the Zhang family because of the great cause of the Zhang family, at this time, it is difficult to protect itself, where will we be funded."

When Zhen Yao said this, Zhen Yan could only sigh.

"Alas, that's what I said, the Zhang family is only afraid that Yuan Xi is now being asked for food and grass, this Yuan Xi Xiaoer, it's really shameless, I think that even if it was his father Yuan Shao, he would give us some face, but I didn't expect him to be like this to us in the family."

"Yuan Xi, this guy, originally thought that he was the most incompetent one among Yuan Shao's three sons, but I didn't expect that he was the one with the biggest eyes, and he was silent in front, which made people ignore his existence, but he didn't expect to be a blockbuster, and he directly united those Karasuma people, and had the confidence to compete for the head of the family."

"I knew that we should have gone directly to him in the first place, and it wouldn't have ended up in the current field, alas."

"Who said it wasn't, if we had known that Yuan Xi could become powerful, of course we would have fully supported him, but it's too late to say this now."

"However, third brother, you don't have to worry too much, a few days ago, I have asked a few stewards in the family to go to Qingzhou and Bingzhou to buy grain and grass, presumably there will be news soon, this Yuan Xi didn't say when we will hand him over the grain, let's hold it first."

Zhen Yan is not particularly worried about this matter, although he has been bullied by Yuan Xi now, but their Zhen family has always been a big family, even if it is Yuan Xi, he will not kill them all, at most, it is just more on some matters related to interests.

Zhen Yao was temporarily relieved about these things, but said one more thing.

"Second brother, the situation in Qingzhou and Bingzhou is actually not very good, that Qingzhou has also suffered from continuous wars before, and the grain output is not high, and Bingzhou is occupied by some yellow turban thieves, which is not much better, I think it will be better if we should go south to Yangzhou and other places to buy some grain."

Compared with engaging in grain and grass in this northern land, Zhen Yao's idea is actually to go to the south, after all, the south is the land of fish and rice, and the grain and grass production is abundant, which is much better than that in the north, and in the past two years, the south has been very peaceful, there is no war, and the people have enough surplus food in their hands.

Zhen Yan didn't want to go to the south to get grain and grass, first, he went to Yangzhou from this Zhongshan County, not to mention the long distance, and more importantly, there were several princes' spheres of influence in between, even if he could really buy grain and grass from Yangzhou, he couldn't transport it back to Jizhou.

"Alas, it's easy to say, it's hard to do, in the early years, we also had some cooperation with the Mi family in Xuzhou, since the fall of Xuzhou, the business between the Mi family and us has also been broken."

"Second brother, don't worry, there is always a way to solve it."

Zhen Yao didn't say much, but secretly made up his mind that he must help his family and solve the difficulties in front of him.

And when the Zhen brothers were talking about how to solve the problem of grain and grass in the inner hall, Liu Zheng took his men and horses and finally arrived at this Wuji county.

He let his brocade guards scatter out disguised as merchants, on the one hand, to inquire for information, and on the other hand, they can also collect intelligence, and they are not easy to be exposed if they do not gather together.

He only took a dozen people and entered this Wuji County.