"Sister?" Zhen Mi, who followed Zhao Feng back to the house, was surprised to find that her sister Zhen Jiang suddenly appeared at home.

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

Hearing this, Zhen Jiang turned his head to look at Zhao Feng, and then looked at Zhen Mi again, and then said with difficulty: "Little sister, grandpa has passed away!" ”

"What?" Zhen Mi was taken aback when she heard this, and then she felt that the sky was spinning and her eyes were dark, and she suddenly collapsed to the ground, Zhao Feng hurriedly helped her, and at the same time stopped Zhen Jiang, who was about to call the doctor, and said: "It's just that it's too sad, it's not in the way." As he spoke, he hugged Zhen Mi to the side and put it down, pinched her middle and rubbed her palms. After a while, Zhen Mi woke up leisurely, looked at her sister who was anxious in front of her, and cried loudly: "Sister, I want grandpa!" ”

"Little sister, grandpa has gone!" Zhen Jiang held back his tears and comforted as much as he could. Zhen Mi cried bitterly this time, it was really dark, until she cried until she had no strength, and then she fell asleep a little groggy. Zhen Jiang carried her into the room, covered the bed, sighed lightly, and quietly came out for her to bring the door.

"Madam, don't be too sad!" Zhao Feng patted Zhen Jiang's shoulder and comforted him, Zhen Jiang nodded lightly and sat down with him.

"Is there anything else?" Zhao Feng asked suddenly, but Zhen Jiang glanced at his husband with some surprise when he heard this, and only nodded after a while, and said with a somewhat self-deprecating smile: "I should have known that I couldn't hide it from my husband, but it's not a big deal." ”

"Presumably after the old man's death, there was an industrial dispute in the family." Zhao Feng speculated. Not to mention the rich and noble family like the Zhen family, even those ordinary families often have to make trouble because of the distribution of inheritance, and this kind of thing has been seen a lot.

"Although what the husband expected is not complete, it is not far away." Zhen Jiang sighed, and then explained the reason to Zhao Feng in detail. It turned out that Zhen Fei had two sons under his knees, the eldest son was Zhen Jiang and Zhen Mi's father Zhen Bin, and the second son was Zhen Zheng. Zhen Bin has been dead for many years, but Zhen Zheng was born in Hebei and is a master bookkeeper under Yuan Shao. Now that Zhen Fei has passed away, there is only one young son among Zhen Bin's descendants, so this property is basically inherited by Zhen Zheng.

"If he inherits, he inherits." Zhao Feng listened to Zhen Jiang explain the ins and outs, and commented casually, as soon as the words came out, he knew that things were not so simple.

Sure enough, Zhen Jiang continued: "The second uncle has taken over all the industries of the Zhen family in Hebei, but the industries in Xuzhou and Jiangdong have always been presided over by me, and now the second uncle still wants to take back this part of the industry." Not only that, but he also sent someone to urge the little sister to marry the second son of the Yuan family as soon as possible. Just now, I had just sent away the man he had sent. ”

"So?" Zhao Feng was also a little surprised when he heard this, and then speculated: "Madam, my second uncle of yours is afraid that his ambition is not small, not only does he want to inherit the family business, but he also wants to soar under General Yuan!" Speaking of which, Zhao Feng couldn't help but despise this Zhen Zheng's character, his own bones were not cold, and he was busy competing for the family business, and he actually forced his niece to marry for his own interests, which was also a bit too much.

"The 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 industry in Xuzhou and Jiangdong only accounts for less than thirty percent of the total, if I go against the second uncle, I'm afraid I may not be able to support it." ”

"Don't be afraid, it's really not good, and 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 Xu Yuyang Sanzhou. Zhao Feng comforted. He knew that the Zhen family's shops were under Liu Bei's rule, and the three states mainly bought grain and salt, but sold horses and other northern specialties. As long as you choke his supply, don't worry about him not complying. Zhen Jiang frowned when he heard this, and finally said: "The Mi family is an outsider after all, if I join forces with them, I am afraid that the second uncle will say that I eat inside and outside, and I am a descendant of the Zhen family." Speaking of this, Zhen Jiang turned his head to look at Zhao Feng, until he was about to look at him, and then he said, "It's better to join forces with the Zhao family." ”

"The Zhao family?" Zhao Feng was stunned when he heard this, and after thinking about it, he said with some uncertainty: "You mean that I worship the eldest brother and will guard Zhao Yu's Zhao family?" ”

"That's right!" Zhen Jiang nodded. Looking at Zhao Feng's expression of disbelief, Zhen Jiang knew that he didn't know the details of this, so Suo surnamed made it clear and told him: "You still don't know how rich your eldest brother is now, since he came to Huiji, he opened the field to dry salt, and his family property has increased several times last year, and now it is not far from the Mi family." ”

"Damn, he's so rich now?" Zhao Feng was really unexpected this time, Zhen Jiang glanced at him when he heard this, and said: "Your eldest brother is still very interesting to you, the dividends from selling salt every month are still 30% of you, and the dividends from Mi Zizhong's selling wine are not more than 20% of yours." It's just that husband, you are busy with military affairs and don't take care of family affairs, I don't know, but I will take care of it for you. ”

"Dizzy, we're also rich if we're not careful!" Zhao Feng only felt a little dizzy. Although I knew that Zhao Yu and Mi Zhu had invested a lot of money in order to have a good relationship with him, I didn't expect that I was so rich now.

"That being the case, I will immediately write to inform my eldest brother that the shops of the Zhao family and the shops under your name will unite with the shops under your name to boycott your second uncle!" Zhao Feng patted his chest and reassured. Zhen Jiang's face looked a little better, but then he still frowned a little and said, "Leave aside the matter of the second uncle for the time being, what should the little sister do?" ”

"Sister, you just tell the second uncle, just say that grandpa has passed away, and I, Zhen Mi, will keep filial piety for my grandfather for three years, and never marry during this period!" Zhen Mi, who was standing at the door at some point, said at the moment, and after speaking, regardless of Zhao Feng and Zhen Jiang's stunned faces, he turned around and ran into his room.

"That's all there is to it!" Zhen Jiang sighed. Zhao Feng was still a little worried when he saw her, and hurriedly comforted her: "Madam, don't worry, it's still unpredictable that the Yuan family will not be there in three years, what are you anxious about." Zhen Jiang didn't say anything this time, last time Zhao Feng predicted that Yuan Shao was going to lose, but Yuan Shao was really defeated. Now he is not optimistic about the Yuan family, in Zhen Jiang's opinion, the Yuan family is really not good.

A few days later, Zhao Feng received a reply from his cheap eldest brother, in which Zhao Yu told him that when he sold salt to Zhen Zheng in the future, he guaranteed that the price would be at least three or four percent higher than that of selling it to Zhen Jiang. At the same time, he also told Zhao Feng that the small piece of salt pan in Nantong would be given to him. Zhao Yu even asked him to help Liu Bei resign from the post of Huiji Taishou and reap him as Huiji Juncheng, so that he would have more time to dry salt and sell it for money. Zhao Feng really couldn't cry or laugh when he received the letter, and this big brother was really speechless.

Just when Zhao Feng and Zhen Jiang were busy taking care of their business, Gan Ning had already rushed to Lujiang. At the same time, Cai Mao had sent people to attack Li Yan in Nanyang, and Liu Biao had also fled to Jiangxia. In this case, even if he had not agreed with Liu Biao to discuss the Cai family and the Kuai family, Zhao Feng could not sit idly by and watch Li Yan be trapped in the lonely land of Fancheng, so he asked Gan Ning to lead the water army to support Li Yan from Xiangshui at the moment. Of course, in order to prevent misunderstandings, he still had to say hello to Liu Biao when passing through Xiangshui, and Gan Ning hurriedly led the army to go when he heard this.

"Father!" Liu Biao had just walked down the dock in Jiangxia, and Liu Qi, who had been waiting for a long time, hurriedly caught up, and his tone was a little choked.

"Qi'er!" Liu Biao looked at his son, and he sighed with emotion for the rest of his life. "My lord, General Liu Pan has gone to the four counties of Jingnan to pack up his men. As long as the soldiers and horses are ready, they can crusade against Cai Mao's traitors! Jiangxia is adjacent to the front line, and the lord should retreat to Lingling first to plan for everything! When Liu Biao came to Jiangxia Taishou Mansion and sat firmly, Yi Ji stepped forward and admonished.

"No need!" Liu Biao snorted coldly, and then said proudly: "I can be here, just rely on Cai Mao's young people, if you want me to escape to Jingnan, it will be too much to exalt them." ”

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

"General Gan, please!" Liu Biao hurriedly said. Soon Gan Ning hurriedly came, "I've seen Liu Jingzhou!" Gan Ning said politely, and Liu Biaolian said that he didn't need to be polite. I don't know why General Gan came to visit? Liu Biao seemed to have guessed something, and hurriedly asked.

"It's not for anything else, it's just that Nanyang Taishou Li Zhengfang is being attacked by Cai Mao's troops, Li Taishou has no more than 10,000 men and horses, my general is worried that he is outnumbered, and the special general will lead 20,000 sailors to reinforce through Xiangshui, so he borrowed Daoer from Liu Jingzhou!" Gan Ning replied honestly.

Liu Biao was also slightly stunned when he heard this, but he quickly replied: "That's right!" General, please. Immediately, Gan Ning bid farewell to Liu Biao and hurriedly led the water division to the north, and Liu Biao also sent Su Fei, the deputy governor of the water division, to lead 10,000 Jingxiang water divisions to help in the battle.

"Father, if you get Uncle Liu Huang's help, then you can pacify Cai Mao and Kuai Yue's two thieves Yi'er!" Liu Qi was also quite excited. Liu Biao looked at his somewhat innocent son, and sighed lightly in his heart.

At the same time, in Shouchun City, "Meet Uncle Liu Huang!" After Zhuge Liang gave the salute, he looked at the middle-aged man in front of him who was about forty years old, and he could hardly feel the momentum of being the overlord of one party from him, and it seemed to be no different from an ordinary middle-aged man.

"Mr. doesn't need to be polite, I've heard Shi Yuan and Yuan Zhi talk about Mr. Daming, and it's really thunderous!" Liu Bei looked at the young man in front of him and said with a smile, Zhuge Liang didn't even dare to be. After a few polite words between the two sides, Liu Bei went straight to the point and asked: "Mr. is from Jingzhou, I don't know what the current situation in Jingzhou is, is Brother Jingsheng okay?" ”

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

"Although the Kuai brothers are all resourceful, Kuai Liang has always been deeply hidden, but Kuai Yue is inevitably a little sharp. If Kuai Liang is still alive, he may not dare to do rebellious things. Zhuge Liang said simply.

"And what about the other three clans now?" Liu Bei continued to ask. He had also heard Pang Tong talk about the affairs of the five major families, but he didn't inquire much about it at that time. The Kuai family and the Cai family have already 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 lightly, and then said in detail: "Since Cai Mao and Liu Biao got married, they have united with the Kuai brothers and used their in-laws to squeeze out these three families. The three forces were originally inferior to the Cai family and the Kuai family, and now they are withering. The head of the Huang family is Liang's father-in-law, Huang Chengyan, who is now a retired man to the mountains and forests without asking about the world, and there are few children in the family; Although there are many brothers in the Ma family who are famous and Jingxiang, they are Jingnan; As for the Pang family, the head of the family, Pang Degong, is the family teacher, and the most outstanding child in the clan is Pang Shiyuan. Although the three families can be regarded as Jingxiang everyone, they are far from the Cai family and the Kuai family. ”

"I see!" Liu Bei also nodded again and again when he heard this, and then speculated: "In other words, if you only rely on these three families, Brother Jingsheng will not be able to pacify traitors like Cai Mao and Kuai Yue?" ”

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

"What is Mr. Unknown's current position?" Liu Bei suddenly changed his words and asked.

"Liangcai is shallow in learning, and now he is white." Zhuge Liang was also slightly stunned when he heard this, and then smiled.

"At present, Shouchun lacks a county order, is Mr. Unknown willing to give in?" Liu Bei asked meaningfully. Shouchun is Liu Bei's governing place, and he was appointed as the commander of Shouchun County, so naturally he wanted to be inseparable from Liu Bei for consultation.

Zhuge Liang also smiled slightly when he heard this, and then got up and said, "Dare not to serve Uncle Huang!" "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.

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