Chapter 7 There is something wrong with the family

"Sister?" Zhen Mi, who followed Zhao Feng back home, suddenly found that her sister Zhen Jiang suddenly appeared at home.

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

Zhen Jiang turned his head to look at Zhao Feng when he heard the words, and then looked at Zhen Mi again. Then he said with difficulty, "Little sister, grandpa has passed away!"

"What?" Zhen Mi was shocked when he heard the words, and then felt that it was dark in front of him. He suddenly collapsed to the ground. Zhao Feng hurriedly held her, and at the same time stopped Zhen Jiang, who was ready to call the doctor, and said, "It's just too sad. It doesn't matter." As he spoke, he hugged Zhen Mi aside and put her down, pinched her, and rubbed the palm of her hand. After a while, Zhen Mi Youyou woke up and looked at her anxious sister in front of her. "Wow" cried loudly, "Sister, I want grandpa!"

"Little sister, grandpa has gone!" Zhen Jiang suppressed his tears and tried to comfort him as much as possible. Zhen Mi's crying was really dark. It was not until she cried until she had no strength, and then she fell asleep. Zhen Jiang took her into the room to cover the quilt, sighed and brought her to the door and quietly came out.

"Madam, don't be too sad!" Zhao Feng patted Zhen Jiang on the shoulder to comfort him. Zhen Jiang nodded gently and sat down with him.

"Is there anything else?" Zhao Feng suddenly asked. Zhen Jiang looked at his husband in surprise when he heard the words. After a long time, he nodded and smiled self-deprecatingly, "I should have known that I couldn't hide it from my husband, but it's not a big deal."

"It must be an industrial dispute in the family after the death of the old man." Zhao Feng speculated. Not to mention the rich and noble family of the Zhen family, even those ordinary people often have to make trouble because of the distribution of inheritance, and this kind of thing is seen a lot.

"Although my husband's expectation is incomplete, it is not far away." Zhen Jiang sighed, and then told Zhao Feng in detail the reason. It turned out that Zhen Fei had two sons under his knees. The eldest son was Zhen Jiang, Zhen Mi's father Zhen Bin, and the second son was Zhen Zheng. Zhen Bin has been away for many years, but Zhen Zheng is an official in Hebei and is a master book under Yuan Shao. At present, when Zhen Fei passed away, there was only one young son among the descendants of Zhen Bin, so this property was basically inherited by Zhen Zheng.

"If he inherits it, he will inherit it." Zhao Feng listened to Zhen Jiang explain the context and commented casually. As soon as he said the words, 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. At present, the second uncle still wants to take back this part of the industry. Not only that, he also sent someone to urge his little sister to marry the second son of the Yuan family as soon as possible. Just now, I just sent away the people he sent.

"How can it be?" Zhao Feng was also a little surprised when he heard this, and then speculated, "Madam, I'm afraid that your second uncle has a lot of ambition. He not only wants to inherit the family business, but also wants to make a fortune under the command of General Yuan!" Speaking of this, Zhao Feng can't help but despise this Zhen Zheng's character. His bones are not cold, and he is busy fighting for his family business. He even forced his niece to marry and seek benefits for himself, which is also a little too much.

"The second uncle has been an official for many years, and naturally he wants to do it more and more." Zhen Jiang said gently, and then said with some worry, "At present, the real estate of the Zhen family in Xuzhou and Jiangdong accounts for less than 30% of the total. If I go against my second uncle, I'm afraid I may not be able to support it."

"Don't be afraid, if you really can't do it, there are still Mi's family. As long as you join hands with the Mi family, I don't believe that your second uncle can do anything in Xu Yuyang's three prefectures. Zhao Feng comforted him. He knew that Zhen's shops mainly purchased grain and salt in the three states under Liu Bei's rule, but sold horses, which were northern specialties. As long as you hold his supply of goods, don't worry about him. Zhen Jiang frowned when he heard the words, and finally said, "After all, the Mi family is an outsider. In case we join hands with them, I'm afraid that my second uncle will say that I am an unworthy descendant of the Zhen family." Speaking of this, Zhen Jiang turned his head and looked at Zhao Feng. Until he was about to look at him, he said, "It's better to join hands with the Zhao family."

"The Zhao family?" Zhao Feng was stunned when he heard the words. After thinking about it, he didn't dare to be sure and said, "You mean that I'm the Zhao family of Zhao Yu, the governor of Huiji?"

"That's right!" Zhen Jiang nodded and said. Looking at Zhao Feng's incredible expression, Zhen Jiang knew that he did not know the details of this. Suo said to him clearly, "You don't know how rich your eldest brother is now. Since he came to Huiji, he has opened a field to dry salt. Last year, his family property has increased several times. At present, compared with the Mi family, it is also different. It's not far away."

"Damn it, is he so rich now?" Zhao Feng was really unexpected this time. Zhen Jiang said to him and said, "Your eldest brother is still very interesting to you. The dividend of selling salt every month is still 30% to you, and the dividend of Mi Zizhong selling wine is not more than 20% to you. It's just that husband, you are busy with military affairs and don't do much housekeeping. I don't know, but I've taken care of it for you.

"Damn it, if we are not careful, we are also rich!" Zhao Feng only felt a little dizzy. Although they knew that Zhao Yu and Mi Zhu had spent a lot of money to have a good relationship with them, they didn't expect that they were so rich now.

"That's the case. I will immediately write to my eldest brother to let the shops of the Zhao family unite with the shops under your name and boycott your second uncle!" Zhao Feng patted his chest and promised. Zhen Jiang's face looked a little better, but then he frowned and said, "Don't care about the second uncle for the time being. What should the little sister do?"

"Sister, you tell your second uncle that your grandfather has passed away. I, Zhen Mi, will be filial to my grandfather for three years, and I will never marry him during this period!" I don't know when Zhen Mi, who stood at the door, said, ignoring Zhao Feng and Zhen Jiang's stunned faces and turned around and ran into his room.

"That's the only way!" Zhen Jiang sighed. Zhao Feng saw that she was still a little sad, and immediately comforted her, "Madam, don't worry. It's hard to know whether the Yuan family will still be there three years later. What's the matter with you?" Zhen Jiang didn't say anything this time. Last time, Zhao Feng generally predicted that Yuan Shao would be defeated, 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.

After counting, Zhao Feng received a reply from his cheap brother. In the letter, Zhao Yu told him that he sold salt to Zhen Zhengshi, and the guaranteed price was at least 30% to 40% higher than that sold to Zhen Jiang. At the same time, he also told Zhao Feng that the small salt field in Nantong was given to him. Zhao Yu even asked him to help Liu Bei resign as Huiji Taishou and become Huiji Juncheng, so that he would have more time to dry salt and sell money. Zhao Feng really couldn't laugh or cry when he received the letter. This big brother was really speechless.

Just when Zhao Feng and Zhen Jiang were busy taking care of their business, Gan Ning had also rushed to Lujiang. At the same time, Cai Mao has sent someone to attack Li Yan in Nanyang, and Liu Biao has also fled to Jiangxia. In this case, even if he hasn't agreed with Liu Biao to discuss the Cai family and the Kuai family, Zhao Feng can't sit back and watch Li Yan trapped in the lonely place of Fancheng. Now let Gan Ning lead the water army to support Li Yan in Xiangshui. Of course, in order to prevent misunderstanding, he still had to say hello to Liu Biao when passing through Xiangshui. Gan Ning hurriedly led the army when he heard the words.

"Father!" Liu Biao had just walked off Jiangxia's dock. Liu Qi, who had been waiting for a long time, quickly greeted him, and his tone was a little choked.

"Qi'er!" Liubiao looked at his son, and he also sighed with emotion for the rest of his life after the disaster. Lord, General Liu Pan has gone to the four counties of Jingnan to clean up the people. Just wait for the soldiers and horses to be ready, you can fight against Cai Mao's rebels! Jiangxia is adjacent to the front line, and the lord should withdraw to Lingling first to make a perfect plan!" When Liu Biao came to Jiangxia Taishou's house to sit still, Yi Ji stepped forward and gave advice.

"No need!" Liu Biao snorted coldly, and then said proudly, "I can be here. With Cai Mao's little people who want me to escape from Jingnan, it's too much to praise them."

"Lord?" When Wang Wei saw that Liu Biao suddenly recovered his pride when he was young, he couldn't help but be a little surprised, but it was more a surprise. At this time, a small school came to report that Gan Ning, the general of Xuzhou sailor, came to visit.

"Please, General Gan!" Liubiao said in a hurry. Soon, Gan Ning hurriedly came, "I have met Liu Jingzhou!" Gan Ning said politely, and Liu Biao said that there was no need for more courtesy. I don't know why General Gan came to visit. Liu Mian seemed to have guessed something and asked quickly.

"It's nothing else, but Nanyang Taishou Li Zhengfang was attacked by Cai Mao's troops. Li Taishou's command was no more than 10,000 people. My general was worried that he would be outnumbered. He specially ordered the last general to lead 20,000 water troops to reinforce through Xiangshui, so he specially borrowed Doyle from Liu Jingzhou!" Gan Ning replied honestly.

Liu Biao also stagnated slightly when he heard the words, but he quickly replied, "That's right! General, please go." Then Gan Ning said goodbye to Liu Biao and quickly led the sailors to the north. Liu Biao also sent Su Fei, the deputy governor of the sailors, to lead 10,000 Jingxiang sailors to help the battle.

"Father, if you get the help of Uncle Liu, you can calm down the two thieves of Cai Mao and Kai Yue!" Liu Qi is also quite excited. Liubiao looked at his somewhat simple son and sighed unknowingly.

At the same time, in Shouchun City, "See you, Uncle Liu!" After Zhuge Liang saluted, looking at the middle-aged man of about 40 years old in front of him, he could hardly feel the momentum of being a hegemon from him, as if he was no different from an ordinary middle-aged man.

"Sir, there is no need to be polite. I have heard that Shi Yuan and Yuan Zhi talked about your name for a long time. It's really shocking!" Liu Bei looked at the young man in front of him and said with a smile. Zhuge Liang repeatedly said that he did not dare to be. After a few polite words from both sides, Liu Bei went straight to the topic and asked, "Sir, I'm from Jingzhou. I don't know what's going on in Jingzhou at the present. Is Brother Jing Sheng okay?"

Zhuge nodded, talked about the current situation in Jingzhou, and briefly talked about several major forces in Jingzhou. There were originally five major families in Jingzhou, namely Cai, Guo, Huang, Ma and Pang. The Cai family and the Kai family are the most powerful of the five major families. Among them, the representative of the Cai family is naturally Cai Mao. The original patriarch of the Gao family was the Kai Liang. It was only after his death that he died a year ago that his brother Kai Yue took over.

"Although the sages are all wise people, the sages have always been hidden, but the sages are inevitably a little sharp. If the good man is still here, he may not dare to do the next rebellious thing. Zhuge Liang said simply.

"What about the other three races now?" Liu Bei continued to ask. He had also heard about the five families, but he didn't know much about it at that time. The Kai and Cai have made it clear that they are going to work against Liu Biao, so they don't know what will happen to those three families.

"Difficult!" Zhuge Liang also sighed, and then said in detail, "Since Cai Mao and Liu cousin got married, they have united with the Kuai brothers and used their in-laws to exclude the three families. The power of the three families is not as good as that of the Cai family and the Kuai family, and now they are withered. The head of the Huang family is Liang's father-in-law, Huang Chengyan. Now he has returned to the mountains and forests, and few children in the family have officials. Although many of the Ma brothers have officials and Jing Xiang, they are all in Jingnan. As for the Pang family, the head of the family, is the teacher of the family, and the most outstanding son of the clan is Pang Shiyuan. Although the three families can also be regarded as Jing Xiang, they are far from the Cai family and the kuai family.

"So that's it!" Liu Bei also nodded repeatedly when he heard this, and then speculated, "In other words, if we only rely on these three families, Brother Jing Sheng can't pacify Cai Mao and Guo Yue, who are such traitors?"

"Exactly! Moreover, these three families and the Kuai family also have many in-laws, which may not contribute to Liu Jingsheng. Therefore, Mr. Liu Qi sent Liang to connect with the emperor. Zhuge highlights the way.

"Where does Mr. Unknown live now?" Liu Bei suddenly turned around and asked.

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

"At present, Shouchun lacks a county magistrate. I don't know if Mr. is willing to give in?" Liu Bei asked with deep meaning. Shouchun is Liu Bei's office and appointed him as the county magistrate of Shouchun County. Naturally, he will be inseparable from Liu Bei for consultation.

Zhuge Liang also smiled when he heard the words, and then got up and said, "Dare not to serve my uncle!" This year is the sixth year of Jian'an, 201 A.D., exactly six years earlier than Zhuge Liang came out of the mountain in history.

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