The Three Kingdoms: A vicious plan was offered, and Liu Bei was stunned!

Chapter 147: Cao Zhi uses his strategy to ask for a betrothal gift, and Luo Gong writes a letter to summon the east wind
Cao Zhi sat opposite Luo Yuan, smiling like spring breeze, extremely elegant. Luo Yuan must not have brought much stuff with him. This was a betrothal gift, how could he not give it?

"A thousand pieces of various colored cloths? A hundred pieces of brocade? This is not a lot!" Luo Yuan looked at the marriage certificate and felt that this was what he should do.

With just these few things, you can marry Cao Cao's daughter. It's really a bargain.

Luo Yuan said: "Just let me buy it, and I will send it to the Prime Minister's Mansion tomorrow!"

Cao Zhi nodded and smiled: "That's good!"

After saying that, he left.

Luo Yuan was surprised. "Young man, why don't you sit for a while? Do you know why Cao Cao asked you to come and see me?"

I wanted to call the other person back, but then I thought better of it. It’s not my fault if I miss the opportunity.

When he saw Cao Zhi, Luo Yuan realized that Cao Cao wanted him to come and see him, but Cao Zhi looked down on him.

Luo Yuan held the marriage certificate and called Xu Shu over: "Yuanzhi, please go buy these things!"

Xu Shu frowned as soon as he saw the marriage certificate. "Did Gongqi forget that we have a bad relationship with the nobles? I'm afraid we can't buy these things. It's okay to buy various kinds of cloth, but brocade... I'm afraid it's difficult to buy!"

Fabrics and silks of various colors are always available for purchase, but brocade is a high-end luxury item and a specialty of Bashu.

It is definitely a scarce resource.

These things are naturally in the hands of the gentry, and only they have the connections and channels to get them.

Luo Yuan reacted and said, "I was wondering why Cao Zhi walked so fast. So that's how it is!"

Waiting for me here.

You knew you couldn't get the brocade, but you promised to send it to the Prime Minister's Mansion tomorrow. Are you afraid that he would go back on his word, so you left so quickly?

Xu Shu said: "Gongqi, I'm afraid Cao Zhi doesn't want your marriage with Cao Cao to be successful."

Without Xu Shu's reminder, Luo Yuan also reacted: "Meng De and I are married, and it is Meng De who has the final say. Even if I don't give anything, Meng De won't care!"

Xu Shu shook his head. Luo Yuan could be so shameless, but could Cao Zhi allow Luo Yuan to do so? "Cao Zhi will definitely spread the news when he returns. If the lord cannot produce anything, he will be laughed at by the nobles tomorrow. Cao Cao is the Prime Minister of the Han Dynasty. Even if he does not care about the lord's betrothal gift, he still has to save face. By then, the nobles will not only laugh at the lord, but also Cao Cao. I am afraid that he will cancel the marriage with the lord in anger."

"Meng De won't!"

"But I can't save my face, and I need to maintain my dignity. But if the marriage between the lord and Cao Jie changes, I'm afraid it will cause trouble." Xu Shu said: "The prime minister is already criticized by the world. If he continues like this, I'm afraid he will be embarrassed!"

What Xu Shu said makes sense. Luo Yuan knows what kind of person Cao Cao is, but he still has to give face to Cao Cao!

Especially for things like marrying off his daughter, Cao Cao would definitely want to make it a grand occasion. If he ended up losing face, he would definitely be angry. He certainly couldn't say he hated Luo Yuan, but he was definitely upset.

"Try to buy it first. If you can't buy it, borrow it from the nobles!"

Xu Shu sighed. He was not optimistic at all. This was Cao Zhi's conspiracy. But he still wanted to give it a try. He immediately ordered people to go to the market to inquire.

In the end, they refused to sell it. It’s not that they didn’t have it, but that they didn’t want to sell it.

Xu Shu said angrily: "This is deliberately making things difficult for us. Why don't you tell Meng De to decline for a few days, and I will send people to other places to purchase!"

Seeing that it was time for dinner, Luo Yuan ate first and talked while eating. Zhen Ji heard about this and said with a smile: "Why should we go to other places to buy such a small amount of brocade? If others don't have it, why can't my family have it? Hebei brocade is all from the Zhen family in Zhongshan. I will go to see my family's servants in Yecheng, and my husband will give me some horses!"

what!
Forgot about Zhen Ji.

The Zhen family of Zhongshan is a wealthy family that Cao Cao is eyeing, and I also have connections with the Cao family. Xu Shu was overjoyed: "Forget about the connections on my side, it will be easy now!"

Luo Yuan thought for a moment and said, "We can't just count on Zhen Ji. Those people must have made plans to embarrass me. They must have warned the merchants. Even if Zhen Ji came forward, I'm afraid she wouldn't be able to get much brocade. So I'll write a few letters and have someone send them to Xuchang. If there's no fine forging elsewhere, the emperor will definitely have it!"

The emperor and I are friends!

It's okay to borrow some brocade.

I heard that the emperor has made a lot of money from painting recently, so I would like to ask him to borrow a few tens of millions of dollars and pay it back later.

After finishing his meal, Luo Yuan started writing letters. He wrote dozens of them in one breath, and Xu Shu was dumbfounded.

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"My lord, why did you write to Ma Chao and Han Sui?"

"I am getting married, shouldn't they give me gifts? Yuan Zhi, Ma Chao, Han Sui, they are all local lords now, and they are rich, right? Why are they so rich? Isn't it because of me? When you drink water, you should remember the well digger. A drop of water should be returned with a spring. Now it's time for them to repay me!"

Luo Yuan wrote the letter and sent it out.

Zhen Ji brought Gan Ning and several carts with her. After dinner, they went to Zhen's local shop and called the manager to ask, "Do you have any cloth or brocade?"

"Yes, Fourth Lady, what do you want?"

"how many?"

The manager said quickly: "There are still 3,000 pieces of cloth and 50 pieces of fine forging!"

High-end goods like Shu brocade are extremely scarce. Later, Cao Cao asked the generals to perform martial arts in the Tongque Tower, and Xu Zhu and Xu Huang even fought over a brocade robe.

It’s not that they like fighting, it’s just that there is too little brocade, and it was a reward from Cao Cao.

Zhen Ji said, "I want all these cloths. You order people to load them into the car."

The steward hurriedly asked, "What does the fourth lady want these for?"

Zhen Ji smiled but didn't answer. Someone must have greeted her. What if the manager didn't agree?
The manager was also smart. He looked at Zhen Ji and suddenly thought of something: "But if we want to give it to Luo Yuan, Fourth Lady can't do that. The local nobles have to send people to ask them to sell cloth and brocade to Luo Yuan, otherwise we will be in trouble!"

The manager immediately ordered people to stop loading the car, holding a batch of brocade, as if he would show it to Luo Yuan if Zhen Ji dared to give it to him.

Zhen Ji said, "I am no longer with Cao Pi. Luo Yuan is now my husband. You know it now. I didn't say it just now because I didn't want you to be embarrassed. What are you going to do now?"

The manager was dumbfounded and looked at Zhen Ji in disbelief.

Aren’t you Cao Pi’s wife? How come you became Luo Yuan’s woman?

What exactly is going on?

The fact that Cao Pi gave Zhen Ji to Luo Yuan would naturally not be publicized. Only Cao Cao, Cao Jie and others knew Zhen Ji's current identity.

The manager was moved. Luo Yuan actually became Zhen's uncle?
This is a bad thing!
The Hebei nobles hated Luo Yuan so much. If they knew about this, they would tear the Zhen family apart!

"Fourth Lady, this is a disaster. Please leave Luo Yuan as soon as possible." The steward looked at Zhen Ji seriously and said, "I am afraid that my Zhen family will be in great trouble in the future!"

(End of this chapter)