Chapter 31 Two Letters from Home
He sat in front of the desk, turned on the candle, picked up a brush and wrote quickly on a silk book.
In the letter to his younger brother Mi Fang, he first focused on the argument that the Liu family was about to prosper, and then finished the details of Liu Feng's visit to the government for help today, and then focused on explaining his views on snow salt and rock sugar. arrangement.
Following that, Mi Zhu made arrangements in the name of the family head, asking Mi Fang to immediately mobilize the existing supplies at home, and send two million yuan to Tancheng quickly. At the same time, he continued to raise supplies in the countryside. How much could he receive? , send as much as you want.
At the end of writing, Mi Zhu paused and hesitated for a moment, but finally without any hesitation, he told Mi Fang at the end of the letter that after reading it, he would forward this letter to his father and ask his father to come out again and summon the villagers. , to raise supplies.
After writing it, Mi Zhu carefully checked it several times and made sure there was no flaw. Then he called his close servant and ordered him to immediately set up a team of family soldiers to protect him and send the letter to his hometown in Qu County overnight.
Coincidentally, Chen Deng is also writing at home at the moment.
The target of his letter was his father, Chen Gui.
The letter written by Chen Deng mainly has three aspects.
The first is to introduce the Quyuan Plow and strongly recommend that his father try it. If the effect is indeed as Liu Bei said, he will do his best to produce it in large quantities and distribute it to the tenant farmers in his own manor, and then promote it to other people. The gentry, and see if they can use this to gain some benefits for the Chen family.
The second part describes the anomalies of Liu Bei and Cao Bao, focusing on describing Cao Bao's sudden willingness to cede 4,000 bu to Liu Bei, and Liu Bei successively promoted two cronies, Tian Yu and Zhao Yun, to county magistrates and commanders of other departments, and stationed troops in Cheng County and Things in Lanling County.
And let the family try to find out the secrets, but be careful not to cause Liu Bei and Cao Bao to be displeased.
The third part is about Liu Feng. It first describes Liu Bei's intention to ask himself to be Liu Feng's division, and what considerations he had in agreeing to his request. Then he was puzzled that Liu Bei seemed to have changed his mind. He was puzzled and wanted to ask his father Chen Gui for his opinion.
At the end of the letter, Chen Deng praised Liu Bei as usual, praising Liu Bei for his outstanding majesty, his domineering strategy, his kind and tolerant temperament, his courtesy to virtuous people, and his willingness to listen to various suggestions from knowledgeable people. Among them, Chen Deng's opinion was the most important and he was relied upon very much.
The second half of the letter is full of joy and happiness at meeting the Ming Lord, and there is also a feeling of showing off to my father.
Chen Gui was only in his fifties at this time, which was actually the golden period of his political age.
Before, the Chen family cooperated with Tao Qian. Tao Qian received the support of a large amount of money, food, soldiers and horses, successfully invaded Yanzhou, occupied a large number of Yanzhou counties, and elected Chen Gui as the Prime Minister of Pei State.
But as Tao Qian was defeated and was hung up with a hammer by Cao Cao, Chen Gui naturally lost his position as Prime Minister of Pei, and now he has returned to his hometown of Xiapi.
Chen Deng’s choice of Liu Bei was also recognized by his father and the Chen family.
Therefore, Chen Deng thought about creating opportunities for his old father to come out again.
This is not because of his inner selfishness. With Chen Gui's qualifications, it is too easy to become an official, and there is no need to seek refuge with Liu Bei.
Not to mention Yuan Shu wrote a letter to win over Chen Gui, promised him a high official and a generous salary, and even used Chen Gui's son to threaten Chen Gui to work for him.
But Chen Gui remained unmoved. This was not only because he had good vision and knew that Yuan Shu was not the master of the Ming Dynasty, but it was also because of his integrity that prevented him from recognizing Yuan Shu, a dryland evil spirit.
Historically, Chen Gui also had a good impression of Liu Bei. He once performed Infernal Affairs in front of Lu Bu, and finally succeeded in deceiving Lu Bu and avenged Liu Bei's robbery of his foundation.
After Chen Deng finished writing the letter, he became drunk and turned to go to bed.
After a while, he started snoring loudly.
On the second day, Liu Feng received the news at noon.
Mi Zhu has already sent someone to deliver the first batch of supplies, which includes three thousand shi of food, one hundred thousand jin, five hundred jin of iron, fifty sets of clothing and shoes, and five shi of salt.
In addition, there are ten sets of brocade robes, five jade belts, a precious sword, four bronze mirrors, six pieces of Sichuan brocade, twenty pieces of silk, four sets of makeup and some precious medicinal materials and other gifts. Liu Feng went over to take a look and figured it out easily.
"Send the two brocade robes to my uncles Guan and Zhang, and the jade belt to my uncles Zhao and Tian. Send the bronze mirror to the backyard to present to my grandmother, mother and daughter-in-law."
Liu Feng Finally, I picked up the sword, pulled it out and looked at it. It turned out to be a sharp iron blade.
Then the blade was sheathed and thrown to Pan Zhang beside him.
“A sword is given to a strong man, Wen Gui, this sword belongs to you.”
“Young Master?”
Pan Zhang was stunned on the spot.
Just now he was marveling at the luxury of the Mi family. The value of these gifts is at least hundreds of thousands of dollars. It is a very heavy gift no matter where you put it.
Most of these things were the first time in his life for Pan Wengui to see them.
Unexpectedly, the next moment, the sword that made his heart sway the most and couldn't take his eyes off it would actually become his treasure.
“Young master, you can’t do this!”
After coming back to his senses, Pan Zhang hurriedly bowed down and said, "Sir, this thing is too valuable. It is a rare treasure. It is better for you to keep it for yourself."
Pan Zhang knew that although the young man in front of him was only ten years old. , but his strength is no longer inferior to that of an ordinary adult man.
Although he may not necessarily be able to use such a sword, he must be qualified to use it.
In this case, he, Pan Zhang, already considered the young man his master, how could he still snatch things from Liu Feng?
Liu Feng glanced at Pan Zhang and knew what he was thinking.
Suddenly he burst into laughter: "Wen Gui, you are serving me in a dangerous battle. You don't have a good weapon. How can you protect me? Besides, we practice martial arts and use this weapon. I'm afraid I won't even hurt anyone." Hurt yourself first, you can't hurt me, right?"
Pan Zhang was blocked, and he really loved this sword in his heart. What's more, Pan Zhang was originally a money-grubbing character. If it weren't for his love for Liu Feng was too convinced, and he was young now. He didn't have the unruliness in history, so he couldn't be polite to Liu Feng.
Now that there is a good reason, Liu Feng is so determined to give the gift.
Of course Pan Zhang would not refuse anymore. He put the sword on his belt with a smile, bowed and thanked him: "Thank you, Master, for giving me the sword!"
"Wen Gui, you then put on this makeup In addition, two sets of brocade robes, a bronze mirror, two pieces of Shu brocade, and four pieces of silk were sent to the house of General Jianwei. The brocade robes were presented to Cao Jianwei, and the others were gifts to Cao Jianwei's daughter."
In a moment, Liu Feng had divided up the gifts worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, but he kept nothing for himself. The servants were stunned to see this.
Pan Zhang respectfully accepted the order, and then directed his servants to divide the gifts. Those that should be sent to the backyard and front hall were sent immediately, and the rest were collected in the treasury.
After allocating these matters, he confessed to Liu Feng and personally went to Cao Bao's house with the gift designated by Liu Feng.
I wish all readers a happy New Year’s Eve! May the whole family be reunited, happy and healthy, and the whole family happy!
(End of this chapter)