Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

Chapter 86 The Mi family enters Wu County

Zikun is a good wife?
  This is not a problem...

The problem was that Liu Bei couldn't think of any wife worthy of his son Kun as his head wife.

There were no elder relatives in Zikun's family, so Liu Bei had been quite anxious about Li Ji's getting married.

And when Liu Bei secretly asked Jia Xu, Jia Xu also suggested that Liu Bei should arrange a family for Li Ji as soon as possible. He said:
  [Zi Kun, the Longxi Li family, still needs to rely on Zi Kun to spread its branches and leaves. The more wives and concubines arranged by Xuande Gong for Zi Kun, the better, and Zi Kun's energy should be used on the right path as much as possible. 】

Of course, Liu Bei didn't know that Jia Xu's suggestion was just to keep Li Ji busy with farming and to make peace the most important thing, so as to avoid trouble with Jia Xu every day.

On the contrary, Liu Bei had the support of half of his elders, Jia Xu, in name only, so naturally he was completely concerned about this matter.

At this time, Mi Zhu, Mi Fang and Mi Yun arrived together, and brought Mi Yun over to apologize to Li Ji.

After the banquet dispersed yesterday, Mi Zhu and Mi Fang immediately approached Mi Yun to understand the situation.

Although Mi Zhu was a little angry because it was rumored that Li Sanqian was a little too rude and impatient, and actually molested the female family members on the first day of his visit.

But if Li Sanqian intends to marry the Mi family, this will undoubtedly be a good thing for the Mi family.

However, when they learned about the cause and effect from Mi Yun, Mi Zhu and Mi Fang realized that this was just a misunderstanding. Mi Yun secretly ran into the main hall and bumped into Li Ji, and the two parties only exchanged a few words. On the contrary, Mi Yun was too much. The timidity frightened the distinguished guest.

It was precisely because of this that Mi Zhu heard the words "three thousand days are hard to exchange for three thousand nights" from Mi Yun, so she couldn't help but bring Mi Yun over to apologize early in the morning.

"Mr. Zikun, my sister-in-law was so ignorant that she frightened him. Those silent words were just a private conversation between the maids who were taking care of my sister-in-law. I accidentally let my sister-in-law hear them. I have scolded those maids and expelled them. Please forgive me."

Mi Zhu's attitude was quite sincere and serious, even cautious.

After all, these things that damage reputation can be regarded as big or small.

"Children joke with their ears, but it must not be true. Ji didn't take it to heart. Zizhong doesn't need to care."

Li Ji quickly helped Mi Zhu up, who was bending over, and then looked at Mi Yun, who was huddled at Mi Zhu's feet and looking at him timidly, showing a gentle smile and winking quietly.

Naturally, Li Ji couldn't help but be annoyed by such rumors in Longyang, but it was impossible for him to take his anger out on Mi Yun, a loli who was not even as high as his knees.

At Mi Yun's age, if he has any discerning ability, he will naturally believe whatever he hears.

What is hateful is who is creating such rumors and ruining his reputation?

This made Li Ji more and more determined that sooner or later the agenda of building the "Jinyi Division" would be given a higher priority, so that he could not only detect intelligence, but also quietly guide and control various rumors.

No matter what era, rumors and public opinion are a major killer, and this is the weapon that Li Ji must control no matter what.

But what Li Ji didn't notice was that Liu Bei, who was standing aside, saw the cryptic exchange of expressions between Li Ji and Mi Yun throughout the whole process.

Doesn't Zikun obviously like those who are younger than him?

Could it be that Zikun just verbally dislikes her, but his physical instinct is still very sincere and happy for Miss Mi's family?

This made Liu Bei fall into deep thought.

After the misunderstanding was clarified, Mi Zhu once again warmly invited Liu Bei and Li Ji to visit various industries of the Mi family.

The Mi family is worthy of being a wealthy businessman in Xuzhou. In this era of extremely low business competition, the Mi family's industry involves almost all aspects, with profits visible to the naked eye.

However, this is not the free economy of later generations.

In Mi Zhu's complaints, Li Ji also learned about the current difficulties and problems of the Mi family.

Every time the Mi family's business reaches a city, the city's officials, aristocratic families, wealthy families, etc. need to be connected, and most of the profits need to be distributed.

In a sense, the Mi family, which lacks a sufficient background, has almost become a complete tool.

As for countering through commercial means, that is also impossible.

In today's era, business is not prosperous. The vast majority of ordinary people are still in the stage of self-reliance and exchanging things for things. The Mi family's business targets are more, and they are originally facing wealthy classes such as officials from aristocratic families.

Moreover, the officials of these aristocratic families also have fields in their homes, and even their families have various businesses and industries. However, they cannot counterattack the other party in terms of business, and they gradually become nothing more than fish and meat.

As Mi Zhu told her story one by one, Liu Bei nodded casually, showing that he had learned a lot, while Li Ji was deep in thought.

Mi Zhu also glanced at Li Ji from time to time, observing the changes in Li Ji's expression.

Although there is no rumor that Li Ji is good at business, Mi Zhu also hopes to get some advice from Li Ji, otherwise he will not go out of his way to talk about the current difficulties of the Mi family.

Li Ji naturally had some thoughts about this...

However, it is not appropriate to say it yet.

And with the fragile business environment of this era, if you play too much with business at this stage, it is likely to completely collapse the entire business system. This is really cool. However, this made Li Ji understand that the real strength of the Mi family was not the superficial money and food, but more importantly, the business channels that spanned several states with Xuzhou as the center.

This is something that will definitely come in handy in the future...

'The Mi family must be tied to the Lord's chariot. '

Li Ji's eyes flashed slightly.

In the following days, while Liu Bei was waiting for the Mi family to raise the promised money and food, he also had in-depth exchanges with Mi Zhu.

This made the relationship between Liu Bei and Mi Zhu more harmonious, and Mi Zhu respected Liu Bei more and more.

However, when Liu Bei left the Mi family and returned, in addition to the money and food convoy arranged by the Mi family, there were also Mi Fang and... Mi Jun? ? ?
  Seeing Mi Yun in the carriage behind him carefully leaning out to look around at half of his fair face that could be broken by a bullet, Li Ji turned his head to look at Liu Bei with a weird look in his eyes.

In just a few days, Liu Bei had completely won over the Mi family. It was not incomprehensible for Li Ji to ask Mi Zhu to send his younger brother Mi Fang to personally escort the convoy to Wu County and serve under Liu Bei.

But why did Liu Bei abduct Mi Yun as well?
  "Master, why did you bring Mi Yun with you?"

Li Ji asked in a strange tone, fearing that Liu Bei would already be eyeing Mrs. Mi in her childhood state.

This is a time of declining moral standards, bad etiquette, and a collapse of music...

Liu Bei coughed slightly and looked forward, fearing that there would be some flaw in Li Ji's gaze, so he said calmly.

"Didn't Zikun ask Bei to win over the Mi family as much as possible, and when it comes to the development of Wu County, the Mi family's business channels may be an indispensable part?"

"So, at the cost of promising to fully support the Mi family's business, I have persuaded the Mi family to move to Wu County."

"Zifang and Miss Mi are just following us to Wu County first. As for Zizhong, he still needs to sit in Xuzhou and slowly arrange various industries and open up all business channels with Wu County before Zizhong can go to Wu County again."

When Li Ji heard this, he was overjoyed and secretly thought.

"The Great Han Succubus" is well-deserved!

Well done, my lord!
  The Mi family is willing to move their family to Wu County, which is undoubtedly the best outcome.

However, Mi Zhu was also very courageous and decisive. He felt that the Mi family had little room for development in Xuzhou, and yet he decided to follow Liu Bei to Wu Commandery in just a few days.

Although Mi Zhu himself admired Liu Bei quite a lot, Mi Zhu's actions obviously went through various considerations before deciding to fully surrender to Liu Bei.

"Zizhong will definitely not regret this move in the future, and it will definitely bring returns to the Mi family thousands of times..."

Li Ji said with emotion.

Regardless of whether Mi Zhu can follow Liu Bei and become famous and occupy a high position, Liu Bei's character will not treat the Mi family badly in the future.

The general trend of the world must be that the south of the Yangtze River will become more prosperous. At this time, the Mi family went to Wu County. One can imagine what advantages they will have in developing the land south of the Yangtze River.

Even if dynasties change in the future, the Mi family will probably always be a behemoth standing south of the Yangtze River.

Only Liu Bei heard this and recalled with a guilty conscience the conditions that had completely convinced Mi Zhu and his family to move to Wu County...

With the help of the Mi family, it was undoubtedly a lot more convenient for Liu Bei to build wooden camps when he camped along the Xuzhou official road.

A large number of craftsmen, carpenters and timber were quickly transferred from the nearby counties where Liu Bei was marching to assist under the dispatch of Mi Fang, the second son of the Mi family.

In addition, these wooden camps will be maintained to a certain extent by the Mi family in the future, and personnel will be arranged to distribute some food in the wooden camps that can barely fill the stomach.

And at Li Ji's suggestion, the Mi family replaced the gruel they originally planned to arrange with inferior food.

It tastes terrible, comparable to pig food, but it is enough to greatly reduce the possibility of people starving to death.

Only such unpalatable food can eliminate the hidden danger of someone pretending to be a refugee to receive food.

During this difficult march, Liu Bei and his party finally crossed the Yangtze River and arrived at Wu County in mid-September.

Liu Bei, who has lived in the north for a long time, was obviously uncomfortable with the hot and humid southern climate.

Moreover, Liu Bei's soldiers and the people in Taoyuan also showed varying degrees of discomfort, and in severe cases, they even began to show symptoms of acclimatization.

However, under Li Ji's previous suggestion, the Mi family prepared in advance a dozen doctors and a large number of herbal medicines to treat acclimatization, which quickly alleviated many acclimatization symptoms in the army.

Next, it will take time to slowly ease and adapt.

However, when Liu Bei led his team straight to Wu County, the seat of Wu County, he looked at the few heads of aristocratic families and three or five officials who were greeted at the city gate. This made Liu Bei's face obviously look a little ugly, and he frowned and thought to himself.

'Aren't Wujun's native families too arrogant? '

(End of this chapter)