The Book of Heaven

Chapter 235 Fangyi County of Zhuge Family

Suizhou, Jiannan Road, also known as Suining County, is located in Fangyi County.

Although Fangyi County is the state government, the Zhuge family is not very low-key in these aspects. With their wealth and wealth, they directly took a quarter of Fangyi County into their pockets and became the private property of the Zhuge family.

Even if those places are not included in the Zhuge family's manor, there are still many properties under the name of Zhuge's family. In other words, almost half of the entire Fangyi County is surnamed Zhuge.

The ones who feel the most about this are the county magistrate of Fangyi County and the state shepherd of Suizhou. The life of these two officials in Fangyi County is really uncomfortable. It can only be implemented after consultation.

In fact, this situation is not an isolated case. For example, Li Bing felt aggrieved when he was in Tianshui City. Don’t forget that the Mawang Mansion is very low-key, and basically does not interfere with any government affairs in Tianshui City. Became a thorn in Li Bing's side.

However, in comparison, Suizhou Zhou Mu didn't have Li Bing's noisy background, so he didn't dare to bid farewell to Zhuge's family. That's what the Zhuge family has the final say on.

The inn that Ma Zheng and Li Ping stayed in is the property of Zhuge's family, but Zhuge's family doesn't have that many people to run it, or they don't have so many business talents, so renting it out to others to manage and manage it costs a lot of money every year. Pay a considerable amount of rent to Zhuge's family.

Even though the rent is not low, there is an endless stream of merchants who want to rent these properties.

For one thing, Fangyi County and even the entire Suizhou changed from Xiazhou to Shangzhou due to the existence of the Zhuge family. Whether it is hard indicators such as resident population and grain production, or soft indicators such as market size and service industry development, they are second only to Yizhou. Doing business in such a city as Chengdu and Chengdu is quite profitable.

Another reason is to please the Zhuge family.

Not to mention the other places, but any firm that wants to do business in Jiannan Road can't get around the Zhuge family's local snake no matter what, so sometimes they rent the Zhuge family's property at a high price to show their favor to the Zhuge family. It is also a way to get in touch with Zhuge's family.

Ma Zheng and Ma Zheng followed Ma Zhao's team all the way to Fangyi County. Fortunately, Qin Tian and Bo Dingtian left alone after killing Bai Feixiang and did not go with the main force. Otherwise, Ma Zheng and Li Ping didn't dare to follow so blatantly, if someone found out, the consequences would be unimaginable.

"Young master Zheng, in Fangyi County, people will pay attention to the word 'Zhuge'. We must be careful, and we don't know how many talented warriors the Zhuge family still has hidden."

The meaning behind what Li Ping said is also obvious, but it is just to remind Ma Zheng not to mess with the Zhuge family's ideas. When he knew the source of the chalcedony around Ma Zheng, what worried him most was that Ma Zheng couldn't help it. I want to repeat the old tricks at Zhuge's house.This is never a good idea.

In fact, Ma Zheng never thought about it in the first place.

Born in the Ma family, he knows the background of this noble family better than anyone else. To put it bluntly, if he, Ma Zheng, can get benefits from the Zhuge family with his first-class martial artist level, then the Zhuge family may have long since ceased to exist. How can we wait until today?

Especially after seeing the Zhuge family's house with towering walls like a city within a city, Ma Zheng understood that Zhuge's family could only outwit and not be able to match.

What you want to take must be given first.Ma Zheng wanted to get mid-grade chalcedony from Zhuge's family to improve himself, but if he couldn't use violence, perhaps the best way was to let Zhuge's family taste the sweetness first.

"Li Ping, this Zhuge family is not long in the army, nor is it prominent in the court. What is the focus of Nuoda's family?"

After gaining some understanding of Zhuge's family, Ma Zheng asked Li Pingdao.

"It should be business. As far as my subordinates know, the Zhuge family is best at business. Don't look at them assigning a quarter of Fangyi County to their name. Chang'an has no objection at all. Try to become a powerful force in other places, if the big Han cavalry don't trample it down, then there will be ghosts!"

"Then why?"

"It's not because the Zhuge family can produce some extremely important armaments for the empire. I heard that the main components of the Zhuge Liannu are manufactured there, especially those places that need to be kept secret."

Li Ping had inquired about these situations outside, and those who knew the specific truth would not easily tell Li Ping, and it involved not only the secrets of Zhuge's family.

However, the news that Li Ping inquired about was basically correct. The reason why Zhuge's family needed such a large area was to produce those things.

It's just that not all the things produced by the Zhuge family are only sold to the empire, and some mechanical and technical things are the main source of income for the Zhuge family.

Through the production and sale of these things, the Zhuge family can continuously accumulate wealth, so that today it has become the leading local tyrant family in the entire empire.

"Li Ping, if I ask Zhuge's family to give me a few bottles of intermediate chalcedony, what price will I have to pay?"

"This." In fact, Li Ping wanted to say that this was basically impossible, but he was embarrassed to be so direct in front of Ma Zheng, and after pondering for a while, he still couldn't give an answer.

Fortunately, Ma Zheng didn't need Li Ping's answer. He had already thought about some things before coming to Fangyi County. Since he couldn't do it by force, he wasn't afraid. Don't forget that he was a serious traveler.

According to Ma Zheng's plan, he still needs a few days to rest before he can start his plan.

At the same time, Ma Zhao, who returned to Zhuge's house with the large team, had a hard time.

If there were no things like that in Chengdu, Ma Zhao would definitely be the Zhuge family's biggest gain this year. After all, they were only recruiting ordinary guards, and it would be luck to find Ma Zhao.

After recovering from his injuries, the Zhuge family didn't pay too much attention to Ma Zhao. Even though he was Jin Jingwei of the Zhuge family in name, if he didn't arrange specific tasks, he would be worse than an ordinary guard.

In order to avoid being discovered by the Zhuge family, Ma Zheng did not dare to contact Ma Zhao along the way. Fortunately, Ma Zhao is the kind of person who can endure loneliness, otherwise something might happen.

Fortunately, he still entered the gate of Zhuge's house and was temporarily placed in the west courtyard, waiting for the next order.

In the eyes of the people around Ma Zhao, this is a standard cold bench, life is very sad, but for Ma Zhao, this is a kind of enjoyment, anyway, there is no shortage of food and drink every day, and he goes to sleep when he is full. This is the first time in this life that Ma Zhao enjoys such a life, and he really cannot think of leaving.

Perhaps it was because Ma Zhao was enjoying himself too much, and finally some people couldn't stand it anymore. After all, the agreement signed Ma Zhao's treatment at that time, and a dignified Zhuge family couldn't just withhold Ma Zhao's money for no reason. If the news gets out, will the Zhuge family be able to recruit people in the future?
Perhaps Zhuge Weilan, who was in charge of guarding the Zhuge family, figured this out, and finally sent an order to Ma Zhao to meet him in the North Courtyard after Ma Zhao was relieved for three days.

The division of Zhuge's house is very interesting. Like a small city, it is divided into four areas by two main roads, one horizontal and one vertical.

The north courtyard is where the steward and some important people who are not descendants of the Zhuge family live.

(End of this chapter)