When Mi Zhu returned from Kaiyang County, it had been five days, after returning to the house, he heard the housekeeper say that Wang Ping and the two had been waiting for many days and hurriedly called someone to invite him to meet, after meeting Wang Ping proposed to Mi Zhu that he wanted to visit Mi Jia, Donghai County, Mi Zhu knew that the two had something to ask his little sister for advice, but he never asked what was going on, after all, his little sister was only seventeen years old What could teach them, Wang Ping of course would not tell the truth, he lied that this time he came to Xuzhou to find old friends in the Huang Lao Taoist Temple for the master, When he was in Luoyang, he heard Mi Lun say that his little sister happened to know the location of this Huang Lao Taoist Temple, and the two of them came from Luoyang thousands of miles to seek advice.

Mi Zhu listened to just some ordinary trivial things and returned the waist card and letter to them, the two brothers just wanted to say goodbye but were invited back to the seat by Mi Zhu, Zhao Yun saw Mi Zhu want to speak and stopped, so he first asked: "Don't drive the adult, do you encounter anything difficult, if you need our brother to help, just open your mouth." Wang Ping also echoed beside him: "Mi Lun is our sworn brother, as long as it is the Mi family's business, we will naturally be obliged." Mi Zhu smiled and said: "The two brothers are so honest, but it is a little difficult to call them brothers. ”

This Mi Zhu really needs their brother's help, it turned out that he went to Kaiyang County in addition to convincing Zang Ba for Liu Bei, but also won Mi Fang the position of Taishou of Donghai County, the state pastor is the highest governor of a state, he has the right to appoint the Taishou in the jurisdiction, with Mi Zhu's status from Tao Qian to the appointment of the Taishou of Donghai County is easy, but the original Taishou of Donghai County is called Changba, who is Zang Ba's cronies, and Zang Ba is a powerful person with a strong army, not you can command it. This time, in order to make Mi Fang able to become the Taishou Mi Zhu of the East China Sea, he privately promised Zang Ba 500,000 stone of military rations.

Zang Ba knew that Donghai County had long been controlled by the Mi family, and Changba couldn't do anything there, so he agreed to Mi Zhu to transfer Changba, but Changba was an arrogant and unreasonable person, and his strength was still very high, and he would definitely not easily agree to leave, and Mi Fang's ability was average, and he was definitely not Changba's opponent, and when the time came, he was only afraid that it would not end well, so he hoped that Wang Ping and Zhao Yun could accompany Mi Fang to take office and help him get rid of Changba.

When the two brothers heard that this was not a bad thing, they readily agreed. In fact, Mi Zhu asked him to go with the two brothers with other thoughts, Mi Zhu saw that Liu Bei attached great importance to these two at the dinner, and Liu Bei also hinted that he should 'take good care' of the two brothers. Let them accompany Mi Fang to take office in order to see their whereabouts, for fear that the two of them will leave suddenly It will not be good to explain to Liu Bei, in addition, Mi Zhu feels that these two people are likely to be loyal to Liu Bei in the future, so he wants to befriend them in advance, this time he asked them to accompany Mi Fang to take office, no matter how well they handle it, he will take the opportunity to reward them well in order to deepen the relationship between them, as for whether he will offend Changba is not in Mi Zhu's consideration, because he knows that Changba cannot be compared with 500,000 stone of military rations in the eyes of Zang Ba, the marshal of Kaiyang County.

The seat of Donghai County was originally in Tancheng, but Mi Zhu's hometown was in Qu County, the east of Qu County is rich in sea salt, and Mi County also vigorously develops shipping, builds wharves and ferries, so as to facilitate the ships of the north and south to carry out maritime trade, so that with the continuous rise of the Mi family, the population of Qu County is also increasing, and gradually developed into the largest city in Donghai County, thus replacing Tancheng and becoming the new governance of Donghai County, and under the initiative of the Mi family, Qu County was renamed Donghai City.

Mi Fang's return to the East China Sea this time can be called a return to his hometown, as the so-called people are in good spirits on happy occasions, and the rush along the way did not make him feel tired, but when he entered the East China Sea City, he only saw the people sent by the Mi family to greet him, but he did not see the officials of the Taishou Mansion coming to greet him, which made him very angry, so he shouted to take over the Taishou Mansion first.

Wang Ping saw that he was so anxious, so he spoke out to dissuade him: "Before leaving, I heard from Master Beijia that this Changba had been a thief of Mount Tai and was a scoundrel who coveted gold and silver, and if we didn't make some preparations, we would go to him to hand it over, but I was afraid that he would not easily agree." Mi Fang said disapprovingly: "The order given to Nachangba should have arrived a long time ago, how could he, the departing Taishou, dare to be rampant in front of this Taishou!" "This Mi Fang has not yet lived in the Taishou Mansion, and he is eager to show his official authority, which makes people feel very uncomfortable.

On the way, Wang Ping saw that Mi Fang was a little happy, but he didn't expect to enter Donghai City, he became more and more domineering, Wang Ping didn't like such a snob, if it wasn't for the previous promise that Mi Zhu would protect his stability, Wang Ping's temper would have waved away, Zhao Yun saw Wang Ping's dissatisfaction, so he had to dissuade Mi Fang for him: "This Changba is just a vulgar person, don't worry, but there are thousands of guards in the city, but they are all his subordinates, it is more appropriate for the adults to go to the Taishou Mansion after some deployment." ”

Maybe it was Zhao Yun's reminder that made Mi Fang sober up, and he arranged for the Mi family to go to the mansion to mobilize manpower to prevent Changba from making trouble, but he still insisted on going to Taishou Mansion first, Wang Ping and Zhao Yun could only go together when they couldn't dissuade them.

A group of people walked on the street to Taishou Mansion and looked at the bustling crowd of people and a lively scene, the streets of this Donghai City are very spacious, in order to facilitate the merchants, they also set up a lane, looking at the carriages parked everywhere on the street, waiting to pull the goods, you can know how frequent the daily transactions here are, and the circulation of goods will naturally drive the prosperity of the city.

It's just that the status of this person who runs commerce and trade is very low and is not recognized by the court, because at that time, if you want to be an official, you must pass the example of filial piety, and the person who is promoted should be a state and county official or a Confucian scholar who is familiar with scriptures. The Mi family, as a big family on the rich side, has spent a lot of financial resources after several generations of unremitting efforts to become a different Mi Zhu, so the innkeeper Jin Gui that Wang Ping met in Xingyang, although he has an extraordinary heart and intelligence, it is difficult to have the opportunity to be reused.

Just when Wang Ping lamented the injustice of this system, Mi Fang opened his mouth to boast about the strength of their Mi family, ninety percent of the shops on this street were opened by their Mi family, and the entire Grange and Salt Farm in Donghai County were also controlled by the Mi family, on land they had dozens of caravans and more than a dozen large ships at sea, and he also secretly told the two that the Mi family recruited more than 10,000 domestic servants in order to protect these family properties, and these servants would practice every day as long as they were equipped to become elite soldiers who went into battle to kill the enemy. I guess that's why he didn't take the soldiers in Nachangba's hands seriously.

Wang Ping heard about the strength of the Mi family as early as when he went down to Picheng, but he didn't expect that there were more than 10,000 private soldiers. Thinking in his heart, as long as the Mi family waved his arms, he could immediately pull up an elite army and dominate one side, this kind of strength was only afraid that even the emperor would envy it.

After that, Mi Fang told the two of them about his various contributions in the Mi family, boasting that the position of Taishou was the result of his own efforts, but the contributions he said were all trivial things, and he even took them out to show off, which made people feel disgusted, and Wang Ping was even more disgusted with his vain and exaggerated face, and hid directly at the back of the team.

When everyone came to the Taishou Mansion Mi Fang asked his subordinates to come forward with an official letter to call the door, and after a while, the officials of the mansion came out to greet them, and it was the black-faced Changba who walked in the end, Mi Fang did not see the official greeting when he entered the city, and he was already resentful, and then saw that Changba was still careless, and couldn't help but sarcastically say a few words to him: "My new Taishou has arrived, why didn't you leave early, why didn't you leave early, is it not willing to be rich and glorious here?" ”

Wang Ping, who was standing at the end of the team, shook his head helplessly when he heard Mi Fang humiliating Changba, and scolded Mi Fang in his heart, he dared to sarcastically mock Changba in public, but he was afraid that he, the new Taishou, would not be able to take office easily, after all, the Kaiyang forces behind this Changba were not weaker than their Mi family. Changba replied with a gloomy smile: "This Taishou of Donghai County is your Mi family, I am only here to temporarily take the position to guard the city for your Mi family, and now you will return it to your Mi family, and I am still waiting to escort the grain and grass back to Kaiyang County." ”

Mi Fang saw that Changba was so good at talking, and thought that he was afraid of himself, so he wanted to lead everyone into the Taishou Mansion, and did not forget to boast while walking: "500,000 stone of grain and grass is nothing to our Mi family, and when I take over here, I will ask someone to take you to get it." ”

At this time, Changba suddenly stopped everyone and laughed: "500,000 stone is just for you to the handsome, and more than 1,000 sons and daughters under my command have been guarding the city for your Mi family for many years, how can you get some travel expenses before leaving, I think you can give us more 200,000 stone of military rations!" ”

Mi Fang almost didn't jump up after hearing this, although the Mi family has been stockpiling grain for many years, the 500,000 stone is already the limit of their family, and their family still has to support tens of thousands of domestic servants, there is no extra food at all, he pointed at Changba and scolded: "The grain of 200,000 stones is enough for your subordinates to eat for ten years, you Taishan thief is obviously blackmailing my Mi family, I will never give you this grain, and the original 500,000 stone will be reduced by half because of your greed." ”

Changba snorted coldly and said, "You don't want to give it, I have to catch you first and then ask your family." After Changba finished speaking, he waved his hand behind him, and saw hundreds of well-equipped soldiers rushing out of the Taishou Mansion and surrounding them. Wang Ping knew before that Mi Fang would definitely be troubled by Changba when he took office this time, so when he entered the city, he gave Mi Fang an idea and asked him to prepare some money to give Changba a salute before the soldiers, but Mi Fang was proud of the spring breeze and couldn't listen to it at all. Looking at Mi Fang again, after seeing hundreds of soldiers rushing out, he was already so frightened that his legs were weak and he sat on the ground, and several of his subordinates who came with him were also frightened and fled in all directions.

Changba glanced at Mi Fang who was sitting on the ground with contempt, and was about to step forward to catch him but was stopped by Zhao Yun reaching out, at this time Wang Ping also came over from behind and hugged Changba and said: "Lord Mi made a slip of the tongue for a while, please forgive Lord Taishou, this 500,000 stone of grain is agreed between Lord Don't Drive and Zang Dashuai, and it is not something that others can change, as for the additional conditions you want, I think you can also sit down and talk about it." ”

Changba saw that Wang Ping was young and didn't want to pay attention to it at all, he thought that as long as he captured Mi Fang, he could force the Mi family to submit, so he pulled out his sword and pointed at the two of them and said: "Now that you are the turtle in this urn, how can you still be qualified to negotiate conditions with me." ”

But he didn't want Wang Ping to follow his example and laughed: "How can these shrimp soldiers and crabs of yours stop the two of us, even if Zang Ba, who is known as the Taishan wolf, is in person, he may not be my opponent." Changba was amused when he heard Wang Ping boasting there, so he put his sword back into the sheath and said to him: "You yellow-mouthed boy dare to speak out, just ask me to try your catties, let's say it first, I'm the peak master of naïve innocence, if you are killed, don't blame me for the heavy fist." ”