Hearing that it was the Zhen family in front of her, Liu Xin couldn't help but move, waved her hand and said, "Let's go, let's go to the Zhen family to visit." ”

Xin Bi is a smart person, and he has been in Yuan Shao's camp for many years, and he has long learned the ability to observe words and colors. Listening to Liu Xin's words "visit", he hurriedly trotted all the way and went to knock on the door. Liu Xin shook his head when he saw this, but he didn't say anything, after all, the formation of a habit is not something that can be changed.

The Zhen family is different from Xu You and others, although they have always been a famous family in Hebei, but their talents have withered recently, and there are no children who are officials under Yuan Shao. Despite this, the Zhen family is still a big family, and this mansion alone is more than twice as big as Xu You's house. However, no matter how rich he was, as long as they were not high-ranking officials under Yuan Shao, the Han army treated them as ordinary scholars, and did not arrest them, but only forbade them to enter and leave at will.

It was an old servant of the Zhen family who opened the door, he poked his head out and looked around for a while, and asked nervously, "Who are you looking for?" ”

Simbi stepped forward and shouted, "Bold! His Majesty the Emperor is here, don't hurry up and open the middle door to greet him! ”

Liu Xin waved his hand and said, "It doesn't have to be like this, I just came to take a look casually, asked your head of the family to come out, and I just sat in the living room." ”

Don't look at that old servant is a little old, but he is very clever, and he already knows that Yecheng has changed now. Although he listened to Liu Xin's words easily, he didn't dare to be careless at all, and hurriedly opened the door and welcomed Liu Xin and the others in. On the other hand, he sent a small servant to the back to pass the pass, and opened the two doors. These scholars have very big rules, and ordinary guests can only go to the wrong door when they visit, and even the main gate will not be opened, let alone the second door. This old servant has been in the Zhen family for many years and has witnessed the rise and fall of the Zhen family, so he dared to make his own decisions and opened the main door.

As soon as Liu Xin came to the front hall, he saw a man hurriedly come out of it, saluted him, and said, "Xiaomin Zhen Yan see Your Majesty." ”

The old servant introduced on the side: "This is the head of our Zhen family. ”

Liu Xin nodded, came to the top and sat down, and then looked at Zhen Yan, who was handsome, seemed to be a few years younger than himself, and had become the head of the family, and couldn't help but say: "Zhen Yan, I heard that you are also working under Yuan Shao, why didn't you rush to escape like them, the house seems to be very peaceful." ”

Zhen Yan hesitated: "Don't dare to hide it from Your Majesty, Xiaomin did have the idea of escaping." It's just that the sister said that the whole world is not the king's land, where can the Xiaomin family flee to? And the sister said that His Majesty is a magnanimous person, and he will never embarrass the Xiaomin family. ”

Liu Xin was surprised: "Oh, I heard that your sister has the color of a fallen city, but I didn't expect that her knowledge is so extraordinary, why don't you come out and meet me?" ”

The daughter of the family will not show her face easily, but the Zhen family is no longer what it used to be, and Liu Xin is not an ordinary person, so Zhen Yan had to give up her hand and say, "Your Majesty, wait a minute." ”

In fact, Zhen Yan still has a small abacus in his heart, the decline of the Zhen family is a foregone conclusion, if he wants to make a comeback, unless he can find a strong backer. Zhen Yan is the eldest brother, there are five younger sisters below, the eldest sister Zhen Jiang and the second sister Zhen Tuo are all married, the third sister Zhen Dao, the fourth sister Zhen Rongnian and Lu, all of them are born with beautiful looks and moons, as long as one person can get Liu Xin's favor, there is hope for the re-emergence of the Zhen family.

After waiting for a while, but still no one came out, Liu Xin was not easy to urge, so he had to ask casually: "I heard that the Zhen family has financial support for Yuan Shaoduo, but is there such a thing?" ”

The foundation of the Zhen family is in Yecheng, which is the center of Yuan Shao's rule, Yuan Shao asked the Zhen family to pay for him to recruit troops and buy horses, how dare the Zhen family disobey? But now that the owner of Yecheng has been replaced by Liu Xin, this has become Zhen Yan's biggest worry.

Zhen Yan's face turned red, and she didn't know how to answer, but she heard it, and two fifteen or sixteen-year-old beautiful girls walked out and said softly: "Big brother, are you looking for us?" ”

In fact, they asked knowingly, when Zhen Yan sent someone to invite them just now, he specially asked them to dress up, otherwise how could it have dragged on until now.

Liu Xin was a little surprised when she saw the two beautiful women who came out all of a sudden, and without waiting for Zhen Yan to answer, she had already asked, "I don't know which one is called a female doctor?" ”

Zhen Dao and Zhen Rong both laughed heartily, Zhen Yan glared at them, arched his hand embarrassedly, and said, "Why don't you go and call my little sister out." ”

This time did not make Liu Xin wait for a long time, not long after the sisters went in, an eleven or twelve-year-old girl walked out of it. It turned out that this was the Luo Shen Zhen Mi that Liu Xin wanted to see. Although the Zhen family has fallen, the dignity of the family is still there, Zhen Yan has no reason to send the little sister who is not yet in time to be a concubine to others, but now that Liu Xin has ordered Zhen Mi, he has no choice but to invite the little sister out.

Zhen Yan was afraid that Liu Xin would be angry because of this incident, so she had to bow down and explain: "Your Majesty, the so-called female doctor is just a joke in their sisters' boudoir, but it somehow reached Your Majesty's ears and made Your Majesty laugh." However, Xiaomin listened to this sister's words and did not flee with his family. ”

Liu Xin turned her head to look at Zhen Mi, and saw that although she did not change into a dress like Zhen Dao and Zhen Rong, and she was still young, she had already shown that she was a rare beauty, even if she was not much better than the Qiao sisters. If Liu Xin still had a little idea about Zhen Mi in the past, now she sees that she is about the same age as her daughter, but she can't give birth to a trace of yin evil heart.

Although Zhen Mi is young, she is not like her two sisters, when she saw Liu Xin, she bowed without humility or arrogance, and lightly opened her lips: "I heard the two sisters just now say that the Zhen family has funded Yuan Shao a lot in the past, and now His Majesty wants to pursue it, I don't know what is going on?" ”

The emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and the Zhen family is a well-known family in Hebei, although it has recently declined, but the family wealth is still not to be underestimated. Although Liu Xin also knew that the Zhen family was forced to fund Yuan Shao, he did have this plan, and in this name, he punished the Zhen family and even confiscated all the family property, so he asked this question as soon as he saw Zhen Yan. But now seeing Zhen Mi's clear and transparent, innocent eyes, Liu Xin is a little unable to do it.

Faced with this little girl's questioning, Liu Xin couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed. However, the look on Liu Xin's face quickly returned to normal, and he smiled and said: "Miss Zhen misunderstood, I just think that your Zhen family has a big business, and since you can fund Yuan Shao to recruit troops and buy horses, then you must also have the ability to help the victims in Hebei." ”

The Zhen family now has no one in an important position, and the operation of several shops in Hebei counties is also quite bleak. There are thousands of hectares of fertile land, but most of them have been barren due to war, and this year is destined to have little harvest. Today's Zhen family is basically in a situation of eating their old capital, when Yuan Shao forced them to pay, it was a knife on the neck, and they had to do it. Now that Liu Xin seems to be much better at talking than Yuan Shao, Zhen Yan is a little reluctant to give up the family property, and her face shows embarrassment.

Zhen Mi said without thinking: "It is the duty of my Zhen family to help the victims. ”

Zhen Yan hurriedly scolded: "Little sister, you are not at home, you don't know ......"

Liu Xin waved his hand and said, "Zhen Yan, what your sister said is reasonable. Since the Zhen family is a big family, they should take their own responsibilities. Don't worry, I don't need you to donate a lot of silver taels, just half the rent of the tenants. ”

For veteran scholar families such as the Hedong Wei family, the Yingchuan Xun family, and the Weijun Zhen family, because they are not business-oriented, land rent has become their largest income, and now he wants to reduce it by half at once, Zhen Yan suddenly felt distressed. Seeing Liu Xin with a smile on her face, Zhen Yan couldn't help but pluck up her courage and said, "Your Majesty, isn't it a bit too ...... to halve?"

Xin Bi, who had been silent, suddenly said: "Your Majesty has halved the rent of your Zhen family, which is already a great grace, hmph, if it is according to the custom, the land will be confiscated!" If you don't thank Your Majesty, you dare to bargain? ”

Xin Bi did not lie in his words, he had carefully studied the policies implemented by Liu Xin when he was under Yuan Shao, and knew that every time Liu Xin captured a city, he would take the land of the local scholars to the imperial court.

Zhen Yan immediately kept silent, but heard Zhen Mi say on the side: "Big brother, what Lord Xin said is right, Your Majesty has indeed opened up to our Zhen family." ”

Liu Xin asked in surprise: "Miss Zhen, how can you know that the policy I implement is indeed what Xin Bi said?" ”

Zhen Yan also asked repeatedly: "Yes, little sister, how do you know?" ”

Zhen Miqiao's face flushed, lowered her head and said: "These are not secrets, a certain amount of land is levied in each land, and the tax is geometric, which is clearly written in the Dahan Express, brother, you didn't pay attention to it yourself." ”

"Have you read the Dahan Express?" Liu Xin was stunned for a moment, then smiled self-deprecatingly, and said, "Yes, yes, I heard that you are a female doctor, and you like to read, and it is not uncommon to read the Dahan Express." ”

"In fact, when the people's daughter came to the Dahan Express, it was to see His Majesty's serialized Journey to the West. I read all the books in the house collection, and I was bored to read the other content on the Dahan Express, so I have some memory. When it came to reading, Zhen Mi suddenly became excited and said, "The folk girl heard that there is a academy in Xiangyang, which has countless books. I beg Your Majesty to allow the people's daughters to take a look, and the people's daughters are grateful. ”

For Zhen Mi's understanding, Liu Xin only knows that she has the reputation of Luoshen, and as for the title of female doctor, including the story of her later loss to Guo Zhao, she heard it from Ma Yun. Looking at Zhen Mi's obsession with reading now, it reflects that she is a simple person, and she is indeed not as important as Guo Zhao in helping Cao Pi compete for the throne.

Compared with the clever Guo Zhao, Liu Xin obviously preferred the little girl in front of her, who was a little persistent, and couldn't help laughing: "Miss Zhen doesn't know, although the academy in Xiangyang is still there, most of the books have been moved to Chang'an. If you want to see it, I will give you a token, and you can go to Chang'an at any time to ensure that you are unimpeded. ”