A few days later

Cao Ying's mansion

A middle-aged man who was nearly forty years old and looked like he had three points between his eyebrows and Zhen Mi appeared in Cao Ying's study.

"Uncle, come here this time, or stay in Yecheng for a few more days."

"After all, soon, the dark guard may have to tilt more towards the northwest side."

Cao Ying poured a cup of warm tea with her own hand and handed it to the middle-aged man in front of her.

The middle-aged man took the warm tea and glanced at Cao Ying with a grateful face.

But this gratitude is also filled with awe.

Yes, the middle-aged man in front of him is Cao Ying's uncle, Zhen Mi's third brother Zhen Yu.

The Zhongshan Zhen family was once one of the three famous merchants in the late Han Dynasty.

But in the chaotic times, no matter how good the merchant family is, what use can it have?

Isn't it a fat sheep to be slaughtered?

However, the Zhen family has not always been like this.

Decades ago, when Zhen Mi's father Zhen Yi was still alive, the Zhen family was also a family of 2,000 stones.

(PS: On the eve of Dong Zhuo's entry into Beijing, two thousand stones of rank is considered a good official, and there are only more than a hundred people in the whole country who have this treatment.) ）

But after Zhen Yi died, the largest official of the Zhen family only had six hundred stones left, which could be described as directly blocking and cutting off.

Later, in order to take advantage of the shade under the big tree, the Zhen family decided to marry Zhen Mi to Yuan Shao's second son Yuan Xi.

If Yuan Shao can really gain the world, although Yuan Xi has no possibility of inheriting Yuan Shao's inheritance.

But anyway, at least it can be mixed with the identity of Wang Ye.

The Zhen family will definitely benefit from it.

What I never expected was that the Yuan family was defeated, and the Zhen family was at risk of being dealt with by Cao Cao at any time.

Fortunately, Zhen Mi married Cao Pi again, so that the Zhen family hugged Cao Cao's lap in disguise.

However.

Cao Pi could not bring much substantial help to the Zhen family.

To put it bluntly, Cao Pi is a very utilitarian person.

What he pursued was to squeeze the Zhen family's existing financial resources as much as possible and turn them into his own things.

As for the Zhen family, they want to get support and help from him?

Then it's still a dream!

In the original history, when the Zhen family reached the Cao Ying era, there was no one in the Yan family.

From this point, it can be seen in disguise that Cao Pi is "exhausted and fishing" for the Zhen family.

But Cao Ying will not be as short-sighted as Cao Pi.

Although the Zhen family has been kicked out of the circle of the family.

But the Zhen family is really rich!

In the past, the three major merchant families in the world, Mi Zhu of the Mi family, invested all the funds in Liu Bei, and married his sister to Liu Bei to help Liu Bei gain a foothold in Xuzhou.

But then Liu Bei lost Xuzhou, and the Mi family had no choice but to follow Liu Bei to wander the world and live like a wanted criminal.

The Lu family was sacked by Yuan Shu in the area of Huaisi, leaving only the head of the family, Lu Su, and a small number of clansmen to go south to Jiangdong.

The Zhen family is the only family whose business ability is still alive.

In addition to commercial capabilities.

Merchants also had great peculiarities in this era.

Why do you say that?

Because even after the formal formation of the Three Kingdoms, the Three Kingdoms of Wei, Shu and Wu also tacitly accepted that the caravans of the enemy countries could enter their own borders.

Otherwise, those families of the Wei Shu and Wu Three Kingdoms, the family interests would be damaged because of this.

Of course, the Maison is not a fool.

They generally say that they despise businessmen.

In essence, which family has few vassal merchants under it?

At the same time, businessmen became an important source of intelligence on enemy countries.

In Cao Ying's opinion, the power of the Zhen family, if used properly, can definitely help him solve a lot of trouble.

So, Cao Ying took the initiative to contact her uncle Zhen Yu.

And used some means to make Zhen Yu and the Zhen family bound on their own warship.

Note that it is bound to Cao Ying's warship, not Cao Pi!

Over the years, even if Zhen Yu was stupid, he understood what kind of personality Cao Pi was.

Don't look at Cao Pi, on the surface, he is not bad for Zhen Mi.

But the Zhen family following Cao Pi was not a good way out.

First, Cao Pi just wanted to "exhaust his life" against the Zhen family.

Second, the Zhen family could not obtain any substantial benefits from Cao Pi.

On such a basis.

For the olive branch thrown by Cao Ying, Zhen Yu accepted.

And this, which is why Cao Ying was only seven years old, but he was able to create such a special organization as the Dark Guard.

In terms of funds, with the Zhen family in the pocket, Cao Ying is naturally not afraid of spending.

In terms of intelligence, the Zhen family's trade routes are all over the world, and Cao Ying and Dark Guard are equivalent to naturally obtaining intelligence routes.

Of course, Cao Ying would not be stupid enough to put all the eggs in the Zhen family's basket.

In terms of selfishness, Zhen Yu is Cao Ying's uncle.

On the gong, Zhen Yu is Cao Ying's subordinate!

For the order given by Cao Ying, Zhen Yu could not question and violate it.

For the Zhen family to go to the next level.

Also so that things do not leak out.

Zhen Yu and Cao Ying's scheme, even Zhen Mi has been kept secret.

So far, Zhen Mi still doesn't know that her brother and son have tossed a lot of things behind their backs.

And this time.

When Zhen Yu returned to Yecheng, he also had another important matter to report to Cao Ying.

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