Chapter 419 Arrangements for Mi Zhu
Liu Feng didn't know what happened in the backyard of Cao's mansion. After staying in Cao's mansion for another day, he said goodbye and left.
Cao Bao naturally tried his best to persuade him to stay, but when he saw that Liu Feng was very determined to leave, he was no longer polite. After all, Liu Feng was engaged when he came back this time. If Cao Bao kept him for one more day, he would actually be one day late in getting engaged.
But when Liu Feng left, Cao Bao actually moved boxes of belongings to Liu Feng's ship, which left Liu Feng stunned.
"Uncle, what do you mean?"
If it were anyone else, Liu Feng would definitely be angry. What does this mean? Is it a naked bribery?
But the person in front of him is Cao Bao. Firstly, the other person will immediately become his father-in-law. Secondly, he has the credit for the first pot of gold. Thirdly, it is Cao Bao who often talks about it, and he still needs to listen to his explanation.
Sure enough, Cao Bao's explanation left Liu Feng stunned and shocked.
"My dear nephew, this is one hundred million goods, including five hundred kilograms of gold and silver, and the rest is five baht in copper coins."
Cao Bao first listed the total number of belongings, and then continued: "This is the money I used to buy public bonds. I would like to ask my nephew to count them."
"One hundred million dollars?"
Liu Feng confirmed in shock: "Buy all the public bonds?"
Seeing Liu Feng's surprised look, Cao Bao couldn't help but feel happy. He immediately nodded seriously and said, "My nephew is promoting public debt to do important things. How can Bao sit idly by? I just hate that my uncle has little talent and limited ability, so he can't share the worries of my nephew." Thanks to my nephew, my family has accumulated a lot of wealth. In this case, it is better to use these wealth to buy public bonds to help my nephew. "
Liu Feng was really moved now. He didn't expect Cao Bao to have such thoughts.
Thinking of Cao Bao in the original time and space, Liu Feng only felt that he was a good person and would be rewarded.
This is really like giving someone a favor and repaying it with a plume.
I treated Cao Bao sincerely, and even though my finances were tight, I did not deduct Cao Bao's share. And Cao Bao really regarded himself as his son-in-law, and he actually did this.
Liu Feng immediately bowed down and said: "My uncle is so kind, Feng Ding will remember it in his heart, and he will definitely repay it in the future!"
Cao Bao was overjoyed and hurriedly helped Liu Feng up, pretending to refuse and said: "Why do you need to be like this, good nephew? I only hate that my uncle is so virtuous that he can't help you more."
"Why did uncle say this?"
Liu Feng said seriously: "Now Xiapi is well managed by my uncle, and the scholars and people live and work in peace and contentment. This is all due to my uncle. I will return to Tancheng to meet my father in the future, and I will definitely report all my achievements to my uncle."
Cao Bao was so happy that he couldn't open his mouth from ear to ear and thanked him repeatedly.
Later, with Cao Bao's diligent persuasion, Liu Feng boarded the boat and left.
Cao Bao stood at the dock and watched, until the fleet disappeared and then returned to Xiapi City to sell public bonds for Liu Feng.
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Liu Feng's next stop was naturally the Mi family in Qu County.
Now Mi Zhu is serving as the Prime Minister of Pengcheng, and Mi Fang is serving as the county governor of Langya.
The two brothers are both prefects, and they are both in Xuzhou, so they are not disrespectful.
Of course, Mi Zhu was also very low-key, and even wrote letters to Liu Bei many times, requesting to resign from the post of Pengcheng Prime Minister, and was willing to seek a secretarial post in the palace of General Liu Bei's Hussars.
It has to be said that Mi Zhu is far superior to his younger brother Mi Fang in terms of talent, strategy and virtue.
However, Liu Feng had other ideas. Mi Zhu did a very good job in the position of Pengcheng Prime Minister. Not only did he govern the place, stabilize the people, encourage mulberry farmers, and restore people's livelihood, he also provided Liu Feng with almost perfect logistical support in the workshop area. .
Liu Feng was reluctant to transfer such a capable official who understood business, industry, and local governance to another one. Not to mention that in Liu Feng's knowledge, there are really few people who can do as well as Mi Zhu after taking over.
On the other hand, it was Mi Fang. I remember that after he defected to Soochow, one of his many appearances was to conquer Shanyue.
In this case, it would be better to throw him to the south of Kuaiji and cooperate with He Qi to conquer Shanyue. After all, his performance in Shanyue was quite good in history.
Liu Feng originally wanted to go directly to Qu County, but he received news from Liu Bei on the way. Mi Zhu and Mi Fang both took leave and came to Tancheng, asking him to go directly to Tancheng.
After Liu Feng received the news, he changed his course and headed for Tancheng.
In fact, starting from Xiapi, it was smooth sailing and close to Tancheng. On the contrary, if he went to Quxian, he had to turn into Xiangshui, sail hundreds of miles, and then turn into swimming to reach Quxian.
Four days later, Liu Feng arrived in Tancheng. Liu Bei went five miles out of the city and went to the inn wharf outside Tancheng to meet his eldest son.
Mi Zhu and Mi Fang followed Liu Bei. They both came on leave. The former was relatively calm, but the latter could not hide the excitement and joy in his eyes.
Seeing that her investment finally paid off, Mi Fang was not a deep-tempered person, so naturally she couldn't hide the joy in her heart.
"Father, two brothers."
They were about to get engaged, so naturally they could no longer call Mi Zhu and Mi Fang uncles, and this title also made Mi Zhu and Mi Fang quietly heave a sigh of relief.
Although Liu Feng is only three or four years older now, his momentum and reputation are completely different.
He is now the official Zuo General of the Han Dynasty, the founder of the Yitong Sansi Division, the leader of the Yangzhou Shepherd, the commander-in-chief of the military affairs of Yangzhou and Jiaozhou, and the Wuhou with a settlement of 4,500 households.
It can be said that most people's pursuit of the pinnacle in their lives is nothing more than this, and Liu Feng is only fourteen years old this year.
The Mi family's initial idea was to help Liu Bei gain a foothold in Donghai Kingdom and Xiapi County and protect them.
At that time, not to mention the three states of Yu, Yang and Jiao, even Langya and Guangling in Xuzhou did not dare to hope. They were even worried that Zang Ba would go south from Langya and Yuan Shu would go north from Guangling to attack Liu Bei in the East China Sea.
Following Liu Feng, Mi Zhu and Mi Fang were privately worried about whether Liu Feng would regret their engagement. After all, the gap between the two parties was so great that the Mi brothers even discussed whether to break off the engagement.
Fortunately, the dividends Liu Feng promised to the Mi family every year are still paid, and the Mi family also helps Liu Feng develop in many matters such as mines, workshops, ports, shipyards, and salt fields, and invests a lot of capital, technology, manpower, and energy.
Of course, Liu Feng did not treat the Mi family badly. After the large-scale construction of the Donghai Salt Farm was successful, he taught the Mi family how to make snow salt.
After all, with the surge in sales, snow salt has always been in short supply, and the previous snow salt production technology was not cost-effective and the production time was relatively lengthy.
Therefore, Liu Feng directly taught the salt field technology to the Mi family, and the Mi family expanded the salt fields on the coast near Qu County and on Yuzhou Mountain Island, which caused the subsequent snow salt production to increase dramatically, keeping up with the extremely growing Demand brought Liu Feng a huge amount of money and goods.
It can be said that although Liu Feng developed technology, a large amount of labor, manpower, funds, energy, and management relied on the Mi family, Lu family, Chen family, Liu family, Zhou family and other families.
These families also benefited a lot from their cooperation with Liu Feng.
Of course, the biggest part still fell into Liu Feng's pocket.
The group of people returned to Tancheng Prefecture. Liu Feng apologized and went to the mansion first to pay his respects to his grandmother and mother.
Tancheng has not seen war for three years, and with Hua Tuo's care, the bodies of Liu Bei's mother Wu and his wife Tian have been well nourished and become healthier. When they heard that Liu Feng came back this time to get engaged, both Wu and Tian were extremely happy.
Liu Feng is now fourteen years old. In both Han Dynasties, he is considered to be one year old when he is born. Many fourteen-year-old boys and girls among the people can already get married.
Marriage among the aristocratic class will be later, often delayed until sixteen or even eighteen, mainly because they need to allow time for study.
At the same time, if the status can be improved, the spouse will also be able to choose a higher-level noble family.
Not to mention anything else, just one act of filial piety and honesty is enough to make a world of difference in your partner.
It was a common practice at that time for a person who was promoted to be filial and honest to marry the daughter of a prefect.
Therefore, Liu Bei was not in a hurry at first, but when he saw that the Mi family and the Cao family were a little anxious, he summoned Liu Feng to make an engagement first. But the Wu family and the Tian family were different. They really hoped that Liu Feng would get engaged as soon as possible, or even get married directly in one step. It would be best if they could have their great-grandson and grandson next year.
Liu Feng had a meal with Wu and Tian before returning to the front to look for Liu Bei.
Liu Bei was also having a banquet with the Mi brothers at the moment. When he heard Liu Feng's request to see him, he immediately summoned him to the court.
"Have you met your grandmother and mother?"
Liu Bei looked at his eldest son and said with concern: "They have missed you for a long time. It's been another year since you left. They miss you day and night."
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Liu Feng hurriedly bowed down and apologized: "The child is unfilial and has made his grandmother and mother troublesome."
"Get up."
Liu Bei smiled and nodded, then gave him some support and said, "Now that Zizhong and Zifang are both here, what do you want?"
Liu Bei wanted Liu Feng to get engaged to Mi Zhu and Mi Fang immediately. As long as Liu Feng said "I will obey my father's words", he could get engaged to the Mi family on the spot and agree on a specific date for the wedding.
However, Liu Feng had some other ideas about this.
It's not that he doesn't want to get engaged, but he wants to treat the two families as fairly as possible.
On the way back to Tancheng, Liu Feng chose to take the road to Xiapi. There were old people in the Mi family. If he got engaged in Tancheng, he would obviously treat the Mi family a little poorly.
Therefore, Liu Feng suggested that he would like to go to Qu County, visit Mi Zeng, the former head of the Mi family, and ask to marry Mi Yue.
Liu Feng was a little surprised by Liu Feng's request, but the brothers Mi Zhu and Mi Fang were obviously surprised.
The Mi Zhu brothers had no idea that Liu Feng would be so respectful to the Mi family, so of course they fully agreed to this request.
So, after getting Liu Bei's approval, Liu Feng took the Mi brothers to Qu County to propose marriage.
Tancheng is hundreds of miles away from Qu County. Although there is a waterway connected to it, it has to go around thousands of miles of waterway, which is not as fast as the land route.
Eight days later, Liu Feng and the Mi brothers came to Qu County with a large amount of betrothal gifts.
After receiving the news, the entire Mi family mobilized, and under the leadership of Mi Zeng, they went out of the city for twenty miles to meet Liu Feng.
Both parties were in love, and there was no one else to sow discord. The engagement went smoothly.
Just like the Cao family, it was agreed that Liu Feng would get married two years later when he turned sixteen.
The Mi family naturally had no objection to this and immediately agreed.
"How is the second brother doing in Langya County now?"
In the blink of an eye, Mi Fang has been in Langya County for more than two years.
He has served as the prefect here since the division of the county, and he has not been transferred until now.
Mi Fang's eyes suddenly lit up. To be honest, he had long been tired of staying in Langya, and the northern border was now somewhat different from what he had originally expected.
Yuan Shao did not choose to turn against Xuzhou, but made certain concessions and even allowed Kong Rong's existence.
In this way, with the obstruction of Qingzhou and Beihai Kingdom, Langya County is very safe, and there are no enemies nearby.
This is also the fundamental reason why Chen Deng and Chen Qun were transferred away one after another and transferred to the south.
Although stability represents safety, it also means a lack of merit.
Without war, there is no meritorious service, but Mi Fang really hopes to prove herself with military exploits.
Therefore, he actually did not want to continue in the northern area of Langya for a long time. He also sent several letters of petition to Liu Bei, but he did not receive a response from Liu Bei.
Mi Fang was already a little desperate, so she simply rested in Langya.
Now that he heard Liu Feng's invitation, he was naturally very excited and agreed directly.
Liu Feng saw that he was indeed sincere, so he introduced him: "Yangzhou Kuaiji is a vast territory. I want to divide its counties and build a new county, Yongning. The administrative seat will be Yongning County, which will be divided into three counties: Yongning, Zhang'an and Damo. Zhang'an County was divided into four counties: Linhai, Huangyan, Jiaojiang, and Ninghai. Yongning was divided into two counties: Lishui and Longquan. Taimo was established under Jiangshan County."
"In this way, Yongning County has a total of ten counties. I wonder if Zi Fang is interested?"
The series of new counties established by Liu Feng separated many new counties. However, these new counties were not to be established immediately. When they were established, it would have to wait for He Qi, Yu Fan, Mi Fang, and Zhou Yu to take office. The situation and population will then be reported to the shogunate center for approval.
But even so, the territory remains unchanged and will not become smaller because the new county is not established.
In addition, Kuaiji is clearing Baiyue, which is a serious military achievement.
Although the Baiyue people are not as valuable as the military merits of the princes in the melee, at least they are military merits recognized by the shogunate, the state capital and the imperial court.
This is much better than continuing to stay in Langya.
In the original time and space, Mi Fang led the Mi family tribe and followed Liu Bei in many battles, and survived almost death. She was not a cowardly person.
Now he is only 30 years old, which is the time when he has the strongest desire to make achievements. It was actually appropriate for him to lead the Mi Family Trilogy to clear Shanyue and pacify the place, and he could also get Mi Fang's full support.
Sure enough, after Liu Feng finished speaking, Mi Fang showed a look of surprise, as if she couldn't believe that such a good thing could happen. Mi Zhu next to him was also a little rude. In fact, Mi Zhu was also quite brave, especially good at archery. It was not that he didn't want to fight on the battlefield.
Apparently, after hearing Liu Feng's arrangement, Mi Zhu was also moved.
(End of chapter)