"Uncle Su, the wind in Hefei City is very tight now! Can Lei Xu really transport the supplies out of the city? "That's the core problem!

The father and son of the Su family finally came back to their senses, Su Shuang stared straight at Young Master Zhuge , and he was still a little unaccustomed to communicating with such a small doll like an adult. "When...... Of course! Lei Xu is a general of Hefei and has a token of passage! His military camp was set up outside the city of Hefei and was responsible for clearing out bandits in the vicinity. Every month, some military supplies will be transported from the city to the military camps outside the city to replenish the consumption of bandits. ”

Young Master Zhuge nodded with satisfaction after hearing this, and said to Mi Zhu: "Uncle Mi, since the ancient road, 'wealth and danger are sought!'" 'A man is not afraid of desires, but he is afraid of not desires!' Even if Lei Xu really instructed his subordinates to pretend to be bandits and rob the merchants, all he asked for was money! As long as the price is right, I think he'll be willing to talk to us! Now the wind in Hefei is too tight, and Uncle Liu continues to prepare a new army with armor and weapons, which is urgent! Why don't you take a risk and get a tiger without going into the tiger's den? ”

Young Master Zhuge said something reasonable, Mi Zhu and Sun Qian thought about it, and felt that there really seemed to be no other good way at this time! They all nodded!

"Give it a try!"

Mi Zhu knelt down and saluted Su Shuang, and said with a smile: "The soldiers of the Cao army are pressing the border, and the form is imminent!" Mi Zhu can't take care of much! Even if it is a dead end, Mi Zhu can only take a risk! Please also ask Su Weng Yu to do this! ”

"Hey! Since the gentleman has said so! What else can old decay say? Su Shuang smiled bitterly, "That's it!" The old face is still a little bit in Hefei City! Let's give it a try! If it doesn't work, then think of other ways! ”

Zhuge and his entourage rested overnight at the Su family, and early the next morning, they saw the Su family's father and son ordering the servants to prepare a few valuable antiques and pack them! The carriage had also stopped outside the house.

Su Shuang saw Mi Zhu, Sun Qian, and Young Master Zhuge coming out, so he hurriedly stepped forward to greet: "It's good to rest last night!" ”

"Blessed as Tosuon, we rested well!" Mi Zhu thanked.

Su Shuang worked hard to catch Liu Bei's boat this time. Mi Zhu and Sun Qian are both very important people around Liu Bei, and their influence on Liu Bei can be imagined. Although when Liu Bei started his business, Su Shuang did leave a good impression on Liu Bei because of his generous gifts. But the treacherous and cunning Su Shuang understood that if he really wanted to settle down in Liu Bei's group, it was far from enough to rely on the meager affection back then.

So this time Mi Zhu and others came, Su Shuang specially explained how to entertain Mi Zhu and others to the servants in the mansion. Even all their expenses during their stay in Su Mansion, Su Shuang also asked them one by one. It's just to get a good popularity! Popularity is important! In particular, people who can speak in front of leaders should not be offended.

Seeing Mi Zhu's relaxed and happy expression, Su Shuang breathed a sigh of relief. "I've inquired, Lei Xu has been in the house for the past few days. Let's go today, maybe we can see you. ”

"Great! Let's go now! "Sun Qian, Mi Zhu is overjoyed.

Young Master Zhuge took Mi Zhu's hand, and the three of them went out of the gate with Su Shuang. There were two carriages outside the door, Su Shuang and Mi Zhu drove one, and Sun Qian and Young Master Zhuge drove one. Guan Ping stayed at the Su family with the guards. This is to visit, not to fight, these tall guys will be bad if they take them to Lei Mansion.

The carriage slowly drove towards the west city, which was the urban area where the nobles and wealthy families of Hefei City gathered. Commoners who do not have a knighthood cannot buy a mansion there.

But in fact, Lei Xu's real mansion is not there, the house there is just a set of Lei Xu's courtyard in Hefei City. The Lei family is a prominent family in Lujiang County, and has their own family manor outside the city. In fact, since Emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han Dynasty relied on the pro-Han Haoqiang Longxing Hanoi, the power of the local powerful landlords has been expanding in the more than 200 years of rule of the Eastern Han Dynasty. In addition to holding power at all levels of government, from the local level to the central government, they also occupy a large amount of private land at the local level through purchase, forcible occupation, and annexation. In order to protect land and private property, local tycoons have built their own large-scale private estates.

These private estates were often like a small society, with vegetable farmers, blacksmiths, silk farmers, tailors, doctors, and so on, in addition to tenants who cultivated the land. Even if you don't rely on the outside world, the inside of the estate alone can fully meet your needs and be self-sufficient. In order to defend against bandits, many manors will also keep private armed forces such as "tribes". Some of them are powerful and powerful, and there are tens of thousands of such private armed forces alone.

The reason why Cao Cao, Yuan Shao, Zhang Miao and others, who raised troops in the late Han Dynasty, were able to gather a large number of troops in a short period of time comes from this. And many of the generals who took refuge in them were also such powerful landlords. They often come with their own private armies. And after Cao Cao and other big warlords came under their command, usually the big warlords would not take over their private armies, but would mostly let them continue to lead their own armies. But this is the time when these armies are already nominally the army of the state. But in essence, it is still no different from private soldiers! During the Three Kingdoms period, there were many rebellions of generals within Cao Wei. An important reason why these rebellious generals were able to command their armies to launch rebellions was that many of these armies were their personal armies. Lei Xu's army is actually of this nature.

Obviously, the shops in the west city are much more generous than those in the east city. Don't look at the lavish aristocratic mansions, but the wide streets where you can walk side by side with the troika are not comparable to the East Side.

"It's here!" Su Shuang lifted the curtain and walked out of the car. Mi Zhu, Sun Qian, and Young Master Zhuge also got out of the car.

"It's magnificent!" Young Master Zhuge looked up at the gate of the Thunder Mansion, which was more than a foot high, and sighed. The Gaomen Compound is indeed different! Although Young Master Zhuge from the scholar clan did not go to the mansion with Zhuge Dad when he was in Jingzhou. However, the packaging of this Lei Mansion is indeed exaggerated. It doesn't look like the mansion of a great family at all, but more like the home of the nouveau riche. For fear that others don't know what to say, he seems to be arrogant!

There were more than a dozen soldiers guarding the gate of the mansion, and Su Shuang offered a prayer post. The little guy guarding the door trotted all the way in. After a while, the little servant came out with the greeting post, stepped forward and saluted Su Shuang, "My adult is sick, and it is inconvenient to meet guests today!" Please come back another day! ”

A discerning person can understand at a glance that this is not what he wants to see! What a body is sick! If he was really ill, he would have ordered the little guy a long time ago, so why bother to report it? It's clearly a choice! When the person you want to see comes, you will be in good health. When people who don't want to see come, they are sick. These are just old routines in officialdom!

Su Shuang looked embarrassed, thinking that Lei Xu would give a little thin face to his name. I don't want people to be afraid of him, which makes Su Shuang very faceless.

Seeing this situation, Mi Zhu also took out a prayer note from his arms, "Please ask the little brother to pass on your behalf, and say that Mi Zizhong of the East China Sea asks to see!" Mi Zhu is a native of Donghaiqu, Xuzhou (now Lianyungang City, Jiangsu), and his name is Zizhong.