Xuzhou, Donghai, Qu County.
There was a complex of buildings that occupied five to six hundred acres. There were rows of pavilions and pavilions, and thousands of servants shuttled between the fields and courtyards.
On the mahogany door, the two words of the famous Mei Clan were carved.
It was as crowded as a market. A batch of carriages left, and another batch came.
Inside the Mei Clan, in the south-facing central building, in the magnificent main hall.
Two young men with similar eyebrows were silently tasting the winter tea that had just been shipped from River East.
The buds of tea leaves grew slowly in winter. Compared to spring tea, summer tea, and autumn tea, the taste was more mellow and the fragrance was much stronger.
In the cold winter, drinking a mouthful of strong tea would make one feel warm from the bottom of one's heart to the bottom of one's feet.
Staring at the crackling coal in the copper furnace, the slightly younger Mi Fang broke the silence.
"Big brother, this is the last batch of descendants from the great clans today, right?”
Mi Zhu, who had a short beard under his chin, did not reply. He used an iron rod to stir the coal in the copper furnace. Sparks splashed onto the wool blanket on the ground, instantly burning a black hole the size of a finger.
However, the two brothers did not seem to notice the flaws on the fine woolen blanket that was worth a hundred gold coins.
"Big brother, what are you thinking?”
Mi Fang slammed the teacup in her hand onto the table, causing tea to splatter everywhere.
Mei Zhu, who had been silent for a long time, let out a long sigh and said helplessly,
"Does it matter what I think? Haven't the elders in the family and you already thought of starting over?!”
Having her big brother point out the little tricks that she and the clan elders had been up to recently, Mei Fang's face instantly turned red and white, and she felt extremely ashamed.
"Big brother, I…"
Mei Zhu waved his hand and said indifferently,"
"It's okay. Water goes lower, and people climb higher. This is human nature.”
"However, you want to climb up the ladder, but you don't know who is the true dragon and hidden dragon in this chaotic world?!”
At first, Mei Fang was at a loss. Then, as if she had thought of something, her eyes widened in disbelief.
"Big Brother, you mean that King Guangyang is a true dragon?!”
Mei Zhu circulated her mental power and evaporated the tea that her brother had spilled on the table. She did not respond and only nodded slightly.
Seeing her big brother agree with her words, Mi Fang was dumbstruck.
He stood up from his kneeling position and paced back and forth in the main hall.
After a while, Fang Huishou looked straight at Mei Zhu and said in a puzzled tone,"
"Big brother, how can you tell that Lord Guangyang is a true dragon and not a pseudo-dragon?”
"The Heavenly Dao Rankings have appeared. Although his strength has been exposed and he is famous in the world, he is only a local duke. How can he compare to the powerful Prince Bian and the Prince Xie who have the support of the emperor?”
It was no wonder that Mei Zhu would think this way. Although the Great Han Dynasty was chaotic, it still maintained a balance.
On the side of the local dukes.
Dong Zhuo of Xiliang, Ding Yuan of Bingzhou, and Liu Yu of Youzhou, a new talent.
Even if they were powerful, they could suppress Si Li.
However, if they were to act rashly, they would definitely be suppressed by the other dukes.
Moreover, the Luoyang central hub already had the strength of a top-notch dukedom. In addition, it could nominally summon local dukedoms.
Even if Liu Yu's martial strength was unrivaled in the world, just his current strength on the surface was far inferior to Luoyang.
"Moreover, the Han Dynasty is in decline, and the fate of the Han Dynasty is about to be exhausted. The Heavenly Dao has given the fate of fire to the fatuous ruler, Liu Hong. The Han family has come to an end. Why not choose the Yuan family of Runan to be the subject of the dragon?”
Mi Fang let out a light breath, forming a cyclone on the heat wave of the copper furnace.
He really did not expect his brother to want to cooperate with King Guangyang and even choose to rely on King Guangyang.
Cong Long, if he was not careful, he would be consigned to eternal damnation.
King Guangyang was not bad, but he was only a soldier from the border, like Dong Zhuo of Xiliang and Ding Yuan of Bingzhou.
How could they compare to the powerful Great General He Jin and the Runan Yuan family whose disciples and old officials were all over the world?
They really couldn't blame the aristocratic families of the Central Plains for looking down on the border warriors.
However, there were few wars in the Central Plains. In order to be promoted, the aristocratic families focused on cultivating their spiritual power. Few of them would specially train generals.
In the Great Han Dynasty, the most basic element of a standard court official was to be able to enter as a prime minister, and to be able to leave as a general.
Putting everything else aside, after cultivating to the fourth stage of the Soul Conduit Realm, his battle prowess was not inferior to a third-rate general on a battlefield where the main focus was on commanding.
His big brother was at the middle stage of the Soul Conduit realm and could lead an army alone.
After the Heavenly Dao Rankings, Cao Mengde and the six heroes of the Cao family had all been recruited into Luoyang to take up the position of commandant.
Other than saying that the Cao family was a weirdo and envied the rewards of the rankings, the aristocratic families rarely specially let their descendants change their careers to consume great medicines to refine essence.
Mi Fang tried to persuade him." Big Brother, that's right. We have received the favor of King Guangyang in the past two to three years. By selling white salt, tea cakes, and other goods that can be called treasures of creation, our family's assets have soared by dozens of times. However, isn't King Guangyang also indebted to our Mi family?"”
"Without the sales of local aristocratic families like the Mi Family and the Zhen Family, it's hard to say that Lord Guangyang's goods could be sold to Youzhou Province. Our family has been doing business for hundreds of years. You and I both know that no matter how magical the goods are, they're worthless without channels.”
" With the help of us and the Zhen family, Lord Guangyang's wealth has also skyrocketed. He has surpassed the emperor of the Parting Empire and the Kushan Empire and is ranked sixth on the Wealth Rankings. The rewards are quite generous.”
"In that case, it's hard to say who owes who a favor by making use of each other.”
Mi Zhu let out a long sigh. He used the iron rod in his hand to stir the coal and tapped the tea bowls on the table one by one to warm the copper stove.
"Once stir-fried tea was released, it immediately became popular among the gentry clans. The light and long taste immediately replaced the complex tea soup of the past.”
"The heating furnace can expel the poisonous gas from the coal outside the house. In the past two to three years, there have been natural disasters and man-made disasters.”
"Once the white salt that my family sells was born, it became famous all over the world and was called an immortal item. What's even more unbelievable is that every six months, King Guangyang will introduce more precise fine salt than the previous white salt.”
Mei Fang scratched her head in frustration.
"However, our Mi Family has also cracked King Guangyang's secret recipe. Even if it can't compare to his new white salt, we can still produce and sell the first generation of white salt.”
Mi Zhu smiled."
"Second brother, have you forgotten about white porcelain, white sugar, and white paper?!”
"It's not that King Guangyang needs us, but that we need King Guangyang.”
Hearing this, Mei Fang seemed to have thought of a crucial point and seemed to have understood.
Tada!
Mei Zhu leaned on the table and knocked on the table with his fingers. He said in a meaningful tone,
"The reason why the two of us were able to monopolize the power of the Mei Clan was because we relied on the goods of King Guangyang to monopolize most of the businesses in Xu Prefecture.”
"You're still young. Why are you so short-sighted like those elders who have half their legs buried in their coffins?”
"Merchants are lowly. If it wasn't for the fact that the ancestor of the Mei Family bought a scripture from a poor family a hundred years ago, the Mei Family would have become an aristocratic family, and our assets would have been annexed by others.”
"If those aristocratic families were really interested in our wealth, they would have long used treacherous methods to devour our family business. Right now, they are only coveting the reputation of the Wealth Rankings and the Heavenly Dao's rewards.”
"If we cooperate with Runan Yuan Family, perhaps in three years, the one on the rankings will be his Yuan Family's disciple.”
"Without Lord Guangyang's goods, what qualifications do we have to negotiate with the top aristocratic families?”
"More importantly, have you forgotten about the Wei family of Hedong five days ago?!”
Gulp.
He thought of the rumored Hedong Wei family.
Mei Fang gulped, her eyes flashing with fear as her lips moved.
"It's not to that extent. King Guangyang shouldn't be like this, right?”
Mi Fang added two pieces of coal into the copper furnace, and the fire inside became even more intense.
"In a world of great conflict, the example of the Son of Heaven and the Ten Attendants is there.”
Mei Fang was silent, agreeing with her big brother's words.
Immediately, a chill ran from the soles of her feet to her head.
He had been blinded by the conditions offered by the various aristocratic families, hoping that the Mei Family could be promoted to the top aristocratic families in one fell swoop.
However, he forgot that Lord Guangyang was called the Mad Prince.
The destruction of the Wei family in the east of the river was not just the destruction of a family.
The impact was far-reaching.
In the nearly four hundred years of the Great Han Dynasty, other than the Emperor's order to exterminate the entire clan, no other aristocratic family had ever died so horribly and died so sharply.
Wang Mang usurped the Han Dynasty because he was cooperating with the aristocratic families.
Liu Xiuxing was working with aristocratic families.
The so-called benevolence, righteousness, and morality of the nobles in the pre-Qin period existed among the aristocratic families, and they would never exterminate their descendants.
If not for the notorious traitor reputation of the Wei family in the east of the river, just the fact that King Guangyang broke the tacit understanding between the gentry was enough to make the gentry work together to suppress him.
Even though they stood by and watched the tragedy of the Wei family in the east of the river, many aristocratic families who had planned to bet on King Guangyang slowed down because of his violent treatment of the aristocrats and planned to continue watching.
Mi Zhu's eyes were filled with emotion as he looked outside the room.
The sky was dark, and the rain and snow fell, nourishing the earth.
"Moreover, King Guangyang is not an ordinary person.”
Mei Fang, who had calmed down from her fear, was stunned." King Guangyang is really a true dragon?!"
"Second brother, do you remember the technique I obtained a few years ago?”
Mi Fang nodded and said," That day, Big Brother came home from Luoyang and gave a woman a ride. Who would have thought that it was a powerful hermit who gave Big Brother the Secret Art of Observing Qi to thank him for his kindness?"”
"When big brother returned home, he used a secret technique to see the fire and hurriedly saved the family's belongings, preventing our Mi Family from suffering too much damage.”
"From then on, my father let my brother take over the family business.”
Mei Zhu looked up at the sky and saw a ray of light that broke through the dark clouds.
"Among the three divine soul talents rewarded to my Mi Family by the Wealth Rankings, I obtained a resource that can temporarily increase the secret skill talents of myself and others.”
Mei Fang blinked her eyes.”
Mi Zhu shook his head." I didn't see it clearly. I only saw a blurry area. There was a colorful red light in Si Li. There was a dense green light in Liangzhou. There was a little blue light in the east of the river.”
"Where is Youzhou?" Mi Fang was a little impatient.
Mei Zhu smacked his lips and replied with a hint of fear in his voice,"
"The golden light that blotted out the sun could be said to swallow thousands of miles. Just the afterglow alone covered half of the territory of the Great Han Dynasty.”
Mi Fang was shocked." How is that possible? How can the power of Lord Guangyang annex half of the world?"”
Mei Zhu looked at his younger brother and said,""Perhaps the Heavenly Dao Rankings only exposed 10% or 20% of his forces.”
Hearing this, Mei Fang was instantly stunned and speechless for a long time.
Their martial strength was unrivaled in the Great Han Dynasty. Unless more than half of the other dukedoms and generals gathered, it would be difficult to fight against them.
With less than twenty thousand men, they had wiped out more than a hundred thousand Wuhuan soldiers.
In three years, he had amassed more than 500,000 yuan. Personally, he was the emperor of the Han Dynasty.
Such a terrifying force was only one or two out of ten.
Impossible!
This was Mi Fang's first reaction. She was only fifteen years old, yet she had done so much.
Could it be that the First Emperor had led his forces back from hell?!
However, Mi Fang doubted the power of Lord Guangyang, but did she not trust her big brother?
Mei Fang sensed the complicated emotions in her words.
"What does big brother want to do?"
Mi Zhu straightened up and patted her brother's shoulder."
"The choice is between a true dragon or a pseudodragon. The future of the family depends on this.”
"Second brother, continue to pretend to be polite with the elders and the various families. If necessary, you can cut some meat to feed them.”
"I'll bring my sister, Ah Zhen, to Guangyang City to personally meet King Guangyang.”
"Good." Mi Fang said concisely.
However, after a few breaths, a strange expression appeared on Mi Fang's face.
"King Guangyang forced Zhao Ji, the daughter of Duke Cai, who is already a daughter-in-law, to stay in Guangyang City.!”
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