Cao Cao called me to rob a tomb

Chapter 517 Yuan Shao's Plan (4000)

"I met my uncle, I met brother Xianyi."

Zhen Mi had already lowered her head and came in front of several people, slightly lowered her body and saluted Yuan Shao and Yuan Xi.

Xian Yi is exactly Yuan Xi's character list, so his identity is more certain now, and Wu Liang's previous guess is not wrong.

"Hahaha, this niece of mine has been pretty since she was a child, but I haven't seen her for a few years now, and she's even more graceful, I don't even dare to recognize her when I see her."

Yuan Shao laughed haha, and there was also admiration in his mouth.

"Uncle's praise, Mi'er can't afford it."

Zhen Mi said a little shyly, but there was always a faint smile on the corner of her mouth, she didn't seem to be stage frightened.

As for Yuan Xi who looked earnest, she never made any response, let alone looked at him more often.

However, there is nothing to say about it. The etiquette of this era is like this. An unmarried woman must keep a certain distance from a man, especially on such an important occasion, otherwise it will appear a bit frivolous. Therefore, this In the eyes of Yuan Shao and others, it was nothing, but Zhen Mi seemed sensible and polite.

"Be worthy of it! How can you not be worthy of it?"

Seeing this, Yuan Shao appreciated it even more, and then looked at Zhen Yan, the head of the Zhen family, and said, "On the way Xian Yi and I came here, I heard that there was a virtuous woman who loved the people like a child in Zhongshan Kingdom. The virtuous woman is actually Mi Er, which really surprised me, thinking back to when I was Mi Er's age, I never had such a heart, and I was only thinking about hunting birds all day long."

"Uncle is joking, who in the world does not know that uncle has great ambitions when he was young, and he is often a chivalrous man. Everyone expects it, how can Mi'er's small acts of kindness compare with my uncle, uncle is too humble."

Zhen Yan hurriedly cupped her hands and said, every word and every sentence was also very level, worthy of the status of the head of the Zhen family.

After listening to Yuan Shao's words, he smiled all over his face, and immediately waved his hands to Zhen Mi, saying warmly: "Hahaha, sit down, Mi Er, you should take your seat first. Today is a family banquet, so don't be too formal. Our two families haven't seen each other for many years, so we took this opportunity to have a good chat."

"promise."

Zhen Mi responded, and then moved her lotus steps lightly to Zhen Yan's lower head, and sat down beside her mother, Mrs. Zhang, and another brother who was a few years older.

This elder brother is Zhen Mi's third elder brother, named Zhen Yao.

Now Zhen Yao has also been promoted as Xiaolian, but he has not yet added an official position, so he still stays in Zhen's family.

As for Zhen Mi's four elder sisters, they did not attend the so-called "family banquet". This should be arranged by Zhen Yan. After all, except for the wife or mother of the head of the family, other female relatives generally do not need to come out to meet. As a guest, even Zhen Mi was called over after Yuan Shao and Yuan Xi entered the mansion.

So after everyone is seated.

Zhen Yan then ordered the servants to start serving wine and food, and even invited a band and several dancers to perform in the living room. Hee attaches great importance to this visit.

room.

Sure enough, Yuan Shao chatted with Zhen Yan and Zhen Yan's mother, Mrs. Zhang, and was very close to Mrs. Zhang.

During this period, Wu Liang stood in the corner and listened quietly.

It turns out that Yuan Shao and the Zhen family really had contact a long time ago, and this friendship started with Zhen Mi's late father, Zhen Yi, the previous head of the Zhen family.

Wu Liang was still somewhat puzzled about this statement.

Because according to historical records, when Zhen Yi passed away, Zhen Mi was just three years old, which means it must have happened at least ten years ago.

And Yuan Shao came to Jizhou when Dong Zhuo entered Beijing, so it was only five or six years ago. Before that, Yuan Shao had been living in Luoyang.

So from the point of time, there should be basically no intersection between the two.

In the end, after listening to Yuan Shao's talk, Wu Liang finally understood.

It turned out that before Zhen Yi's death, he was an official in Runan County and served as Shangcai Ling. At that time, the Zhen family also followed him to live in Shangcai. After Zhen Yi passed away, the Zhen family had no one to rely on and had to move out Back to Zhongshan, relying on ancestral property to live, until the second son Zhen Yan was made a general, finally survived, life gradually improved again.

And Runan County is Yuan Shao's hometown, and Ruyang, where the Yuan family's ancestral property is located, is not far from Shangcai.

On the way back to his hometown, Yuan Shao encountered a rebellion by the Yellow Turban Army, and besieged him and his family in Yan County.

From then on, Yuan Shao and Zhen Yi became friends. Yuan Shao believed that he owed Zhen Yi's life, and he was willing to address him as a big brother and his wife, Zhang, as a sister-in-law. He will also sacrifice his life to save this kindness in return.

As a result, every few years, Zhen Yi died of illness.

The remaining members of the Zhen family had no one to rely on, so they moved back to Zhongshan. When Yuan Shao, who was far away in Luoyang, learned about this and wanted to provide some help, they could no longer find them.

Later, Dong Zhuo led his troops into Beijing and took control of the government.

Yuan Shao had a dispute with him about re-deposing the new emperor, so he was wanted by Dong Zhuo and arrested. Yuan Shao had to flee to Jizhou with his family. It's called defection.

At this time, the head of the Zhen family is Zhen Yan.

When Yuan Shao and his father Zhen Yi called each other brothers, Zhen Yan was already sensible and recognized people, so he could recognize Yuan Shao, so he warmly entertained him and provided him and his family with many necessary help.

It was also at this time that Yuan Shao's second son, Yuan Xi, met Zhen Mi.

Zhen Mi was only seven or eight years old at that time, and Yuan Xi was just twelve or thirteen years old. During the few months when Yuan Shao stayed at Zhen's house in Zhongshan, Yuan Xi's favorite thing to do was to play with Zhen Mi.

In other words, Yuan Shao already owed the Zhen family two favors at this time, and they were all sincere love in need.

Later, Yuan Shao asked his friends in Luoyang to help him move around. Dong Zhuo finally pardoned Yuan Shao in order to win people's hearts.

Since then, Yuan Shao has finally stepped out of the trough in his life.

At the same time, he did not forget the kindness of the Zhen family, and he wrote to the court not long after, recommending Zhen Yan as a general, that is to say, the official position that Zhen Yan got now was also rewarded by Yuan Shao.

And then later.

Dong Zhuo finally abolished the Young Emperor and established the Xian Emperor. This move aroused dissatisfaction from all walks of life in the world. The voices of crusade against Dong Zhuo became louder and louder. Yuan Shao took advantage of the opportunity and jumped into the most appealing figure. Recommended as the leader, and finally became the most powerful hero in the world today...

Needless to say, what happened after Yuan Shao became the leader of the Kwantung Allied Forces, even later generations have already known it to everyone.

What Wu Liang is more interested in is what happened before this. If Yuan Shao hadn't talked about these past events with the Zhen family, especially what happened with the Zhen family, he would never have known that Yuan Shao and the Zhen family still had such a relationship. It is not an exaggeration to call it a close relationship.

"It's a pity, Brother Chang Ru was kind to me, but when he passed away, I never saw him for the last time, and I didn't show up to take care of you in time, which caused you to suffer a lot. On the contrary, I got sick again when I was in trouble." Thanks to your help, today’s situation is possible, and I’m thinking, if one day I meet Brother Chang Ru under the Nine Springs, how should I face him when he asks about me? ?”

Talking to this point, Yuan Shao finally let out a long sigh, beat his chest with tears in his eyes, and his tone was full of shame and apology, as if showing his true feelings in front of the Zhen family.

"Uncle, don't do this. I owe my official position to my uncle. What's more, when my father died, my uncle was far away in Luoyang and didn't know about it. How can I blame my uncle?"

Zhen Yan hurriedly persuaded her, her eyes were already slightly red.

The mother Zhang and his third brother Zhen Yao who were sitting next to him were also a little moved. They will never forget the hardships that Zhen Yi experienced after the death of Zhen Yi, but no one mentions it on weekdays, and they will not specifically think of it , Now that Yuan Shao mentioned it like this, they couldn't stand it anymore.

Only Zhen Mi still lowered her head silently, no one could see her expression, let alone what she was thinking at the moment.

"So the last time when I had the brazenness to get help from the Zhen family, I swore in my heart that from now on, even if I, Yuan Benchu, betrayed everyone in the world, I definitely couldn't betray the Zhen family. As long as I, Yuan Benchu, live in this world for a day, No one will be able to harm the Zhen family!"

Yuan Shao then gritted his teeth and said very solemnly.

"uncle……"

Zhen Yan finally wiped away his tears, his face was full of gratitude, if not for the desk between them, he might have thrown himself into his arms and cried bitterly.

But in Wu Liang's eyes, this scene gave another feeling.

Boss Yuan, isn't it a little fake?

If you really have this kind of thinking, you have gained such a great influence in recent years, why did you not invite the Zhen family into your camp and entrust them with important responsibilities, and you did not see you send some people to protect the Zhen family, even you just now I also said that you haven't been to Zhen's family for several years. If you really want to keep Zhen's family in your heart and don't want something like Zhen Yi to happen, you should come to see them in a year or two anyway?
"No need to say much."

Yuan Shao immediately raised his hand to interrupt Zhen Yan, took a deep breath, then looked at Zhen Mi's third elder brother Zhen Yao, and suddenly asked, "Shu Li, I heard that you have promoted Xiaolian, how old are you this year? "

"Returning to uncle, my nephew is now nine out of ten."

Zhen Yao quickly sniffed, and Shi Li replied.

"Nineteen... It's a good time to be alive and well, what do you think about the future?"

Yuan Shao asked again.

"The situation in the world is unstable now, so there is no future to talk about, so my nephew has no other ideas, I just hope that the Zhen family can be safe and sound in this troubled world, and I don't want anything else."

Zhen Yao didn't seem to have any ambitions, and said with a smile.

"As the saying goes, heroes come out of troubled times, and because it is a troubled time, it is a good time for men to make contributions."

Yuan Shao also retorted with a smile, "I heard that Zhongshan Wuji is the ancestor of the Zhen family, and now I am planning to station troops in Wuji to check and balance Gongsun Zan who is entrenched in Youzhou. Sima, not only can I control the soldiers stationed in Wuji for me, but also use this military power to protect the Zhen family, and I can rest assured, what do you think?"

Hearing this, Wu Liang understood that Yuan Shao might have really planned to start a war with Boss Cao in advance.

You need to know that the north of Zhongshan Kingdom is adjacent to Youzhou. Gongsun Zan, who is now entrenched in Youzhou, fought a war with Yuan Shao in the battle for Jizhou a few years ago. In the end, no one took advantage, Gongsun Zan went north to occupy Youzhou, and Yuan Shao took Jizhou.

In the past few years, although the two sides occasionally had some small frictions, they did not trigger any large-scale wars, so they managed to maintain the superficial peace, but it was not a problem.

But now, Yuan Shao suddenly wants to station troops in Wuji, Zhongshan, the purpose of this move needs to be carefully considered.

From his tone, it can be heard that he stationed troops in Zhongshan Wuji not to attack Gongsun Zan, but to guard against and check and balance Gongsun Zan. However, Gongsun Zan has not made any big moves recently, otherwise the Prophet of Spring River Plumbing Duck will always be a little bit A few words were spread through the mouths of refugees who were running around to escape the war, especially within the border of Zhongshan Kingdom, it is impossible that there is not a little bit of rumors... So it seems that Yuan Shao's move is a little abnormal.

The only reasonable explanation is that Yuan Shao may have to use heavy troops in the opposite direction recently, so he made deployments in advance to prevent himself from falling into a situation where he was attacked by the enemy, and he could not take care of each other in the end.

And Gongsun Zan is in the north, Boss Cao is in the south...

Combined with the analysis of the current facts, the answer is ready to come out.

"This……"

After hearing Yuan Shao's words, Zhen Yao didn't thank him immediately, but subconsciously looked at the Patriarch Zhen Yan.

This matter is no small matter, it is directly related to the political stance of the Zhen family in the future, if you accidentally stand on the wrong team, you may end up with a ruined family, and the ancestors of the Zhen family were once a wealthy family that shocked the government and the public. It is very sensitive, and of course it needs the head of the Zhen family, Zhen Yan, to make a decision.

"Uncle regards you so highly, why don't you thank you quickly?"

Zhen Yan, however, seemed to have already prepared, and said to Zhen Yao with a smile.

"Thank you uncle, my nephew will definitely do my best!"

With Zhen Yan's approval, Zhen Yao immediately bowed to salute.

"Hahahaha, one family does not speak two different languages. Your father and I are like brothers. You are like my sons. I will guard Zhongshan for me. I am at ease."

Yuan Shao immediately burst into laughter, and after laughing, he finally looked at Zhen Mi who bowed his head and said nothing, "Mi Er, you are almost an adult now, have you ever performed the ceremony?"

A few days ago, news spread that Yuan Shao's trip was for Zhen Mi, and it was unknown where the news came from...

"Returning to uncle, my nephew is ten out of three this year, and he has never been to the ceremony."

Zhen Mi got up and saluted obediently.

(End of this chapter)