Zhang felt something was not good when she saw Ju Shou and the heads of various aristocratic families sitting in the government office, but the confidence of Jizhou's wealthy families still prevented her from thinking deeply about these things.
Shortly after receiving the letter from Yuan Shao, something like this broke out between the Mi family and the Zhen family. It was no wonder that Jushou didn't think more about it and went out to investigate. In other words, after Mi Zhu specially sent the signal to the Jizhou officials, Jushou soon found out after the officials received it.
I understand that what Liu Xuande wants is the Zhen family.
What does the Zhen family have? Jushou thought about it carefully and found that it was nothing more than connections, trade and wealth in the north, but these were nothing compared to Jizhou, especially after Yuan Huai and Yuan Cheng were injected into Jizhou, with Yuan Benchu,
Ju Gong, Tian Yuanhao and others all have a clear vision. The aristocratic families in Jizhou need to be weakened. There can only be one voice in Jizhou, and that is the Yuan family!
However, there is a saying that a strong dragon cannot suppress a local snake. The Yuan family is powerful, but the Geng family, Cui family, Zhang family, and Zhen family in Jizhou are all powerful families that have been around for hundreds of years. They may not have as much influence as those in the Central Plains.
The Yuan family, but compared to Jizhou, if the four families join forces, the Yuan family cannot even think of taking advantage.
This is also the reason why Yuan Shao's power needs to win over local forces when it comes to Jizhou. The local snakes are too strong.
The information released by the Mi family was actually good news for Jizhou officials, but even so, Jushou sent a letter to Chen Xi, warning Chen Xi not to push too far, and Chen Xi's reply made Jushou relieved a lot. Qingzhou was exhausted.
I am burdened by a million yellow turbans. When the time comes, you will judge fairly and give me another million shi of food.
After reading it, Jushu passed the messenger to the front line, but he already knew how to deal with it. One million shi of food was not a big problem. Now that Jizhou is prosperous and last year had another bumper harvest, the government's grain reserves exceeded 20 million shi. However,
Giving you a million stones for free is a nice thought.
While arguing with Chen Xi, Jushu told Mi Zhu not to be too hasty and not to tell the Zhen family first. He was not ready yet. He then quietly contacted the heads of various families in Jizhou to clarify the current situation and even produced a battle report.
It is said that the various families in Jizhou are of different sizes, and there are no professional intelligence processing personnel. Naturally, most of the intelligence systems are in chaos. Although they know that Taishan sent troops to deal with the Yellow Turbans, what is the current accurate situation? Cui has the best intelligence system.
Everyone knew that Chen Xi had defeated the Yellow Turban, which was quite shocking to the Cui family, but it had nothing to do with the Cui family. Well, at least that's what the Cui family thought.
After Jushou took out the latest battle report and handed it to the heads of the big and small families in Jizhou, the faces of all the heads of the families were darkened. Gongsun Zan was considered outside the enemy's territory, so he didn't have to worry about the raging war in front of his house and breaking bottles and cans.
What should we do about this Chen Zichuan? More than one million Yellow Turbans were all defeated and surrendered in one month. This kind of person is now sharpening his sword at the door of his house. Maybe he is really dead?
For a moment, all the family heads stared at Jushou, and then the Cui family leader glanced around and frowned slightly. He didn't see the Zhen family for such an important matter. He didn't understand military strategy, but he knew very well about the family's affairs. The Zhen family would either be excluded from this group.
, either the matter about to be discussed is related to the Zhen family, otherwise, according to the identity of the Zhen family, there must be a position.
Similarly, those family heads with good eyesight and flexible brains also discovered something unusual, so they stopped talking and just stared at Jushu.
Soon the commotion of the whole place fell silent and stared at Jushu who was sitting in the main seat.
"It is indeed related to the Zhen family at this time." Jushou smiled and said, letting them guess that the other party would understand what he was thinking when he said it.
"This is Chen Zichuan's letter. Please think about it. I'll go out first. The fate of Jizhou is in your hands." Jushou played a trick and walked out without giving everyone present time to react after handing over Chen Xi's letter.
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Less than half an hour later, Jushu was invited back. The result was just as he expected. The Zhen family was kicked out directly. Even the Zhang family, who had a good relationship with the Zhen family, did not say anything.
Faced with the life and death of the family, all the families silently chose their own interests. According to the head of the Geng family, it was unwise for the Zhen family to involve the entire people of Jizhou in the war, so the Zhen family was eliminated.
With the support of all the families in Jizhou, Jushou calmly calculated the power of the Zhen family, and finally found that the entire Zhen family was not enough to compensate. He was immediately relieved. One of the four major families in Jizhou was abandoned, and the overall strength showed a huge improvement.
If the situation declines, the Yuan family may intervene.
After calculating the Zhen family's property, Jushou stayed up all night and sent a fast horse to deliver a letter to Yuan Shao. He had a better plan. Since Chen Zichuan wanted to play, he wouldn't mind using Chen Zichuan's hand to subdue four families in Hebei at once. All the famous families were on the wall.
Damn it, since you, Chen Zichuan, can use it, why can't I, Duke Ju? The icing on the cake is not as effective as providing help in times of need. The Yuan family and the Zhen family may not be able to integrate the entire Jizhou at once!
With this in mind, Ju Shou began to make careful preparations, mobilizing money from the treasury with the intention of guarding against Chen Xi. This was a good opportunity, an opportunity for the Yuan family to completely control Jizhou!
As long as we seize this opportunity and completely control Jizhou, a large population and grain-producing state, the power that comes from the combination of military and government orders will definitely be enough to defeat Gongsun Bogui, and then cooperate with You to unite the three states of Hebei, and the world can look forward to it!
Thinking of these, Jushu felt extremely excited. The feeling of leveraging the general trend of the world made him tremble. Misfortunes and blessings depended on each other. Jushou clearly felt this mutual support and dependence.
Mrs. Zhang Yingying saluted, although the atmosphere was a bit strange, but after taking a look at Ju Shou sitting on the upper hand, she felt a lot more relieved. The Jizhou official had not turned against the Mi family. With this assurance, Mrs. Zhang felt a lot more relieved. There was no Jizhou official.
With the power of the Mi family alone, it is just a joke to defeat the Zhen family in Jizhou!
"Mrs. Zhen, please give Mi Zizhong a seat." Jushou said with a calm expression. Soon someone brought a couch and asked the two of them to sit down.
Mi Zhu frowned slightly. He could understand Jushou giving Zhang a seat. After all, the Zhen family had a hereditary official position of two thousand dan. Zhang was entitled to the treatment of a wife, and he was just a businessman, not an official. It was not in line with etiquette for Jushou to give him a seat.
,Does Jushou want to mediate? Mi Zhu thought unconsciously.
No matter what Ju Shou does, the initiative is in Mi Zhu's hands. Now every step is just as Chen Xi expected. We have reached this point, the arrow is on the string and it has to be fired. It's time for the Zhen family to end.
After ordering someone to bring up a box of land deeds and IOUs, Mi Zhu looked calm and said, "These exhibits are all genuine. I guess the Zhen family won't deny it given their reputation."
Soon Shu Zuo verified everything and then stood up and said to Jushou, "To the eunuch, I have verified that all the land deeds and IOUs were signed by the Zhen family."
This time, in order to avoid omissions, Jushou knew that every official was his confidant. Naturally, they all knew that there was no need to have any bias this time. They should speak with evidence and do not worry about the identity of the other party!
