Three Kingdoms

"All donated?" 』

Even though Zhen Mi nodded in confirmation, Xin Xianying still couldn't believe it and pointed at the various exquisite objects in the green gauze tent with a look of reluctance.

Zhen Mi's face was still calm, as if she was facing some dispensable utensils, "Yes, basically they will be donated... On the one hand, it saves troubles, and it is also for my damn clan brother." …On the other hand, it’s the first step towards becoming a human being…”

Wang Shu was on the side, playing with a gold-painted fan in his hand, and said: "But getting out of Zhiyin Prison... is not a smooth road..."

Zhen Mi nodded slightly, was silent for a moment, and then sighed, "But after all, is she better than a merchant's daughter?" 』

Wang Ying seemed to want to say something, but her lips moved slightly, and in the end she said nothing. What she originally wanted to say was that being a woman from an official family was not easy, but she didn't come from a wealthy family. If it weren't for all the men in Wang Yun's family...

And similarly, the reason why Wang Ying is unwilling to return to Taiyuan and his own home is because his home is not as comfortable as Chang'an? If Wang Yun hadn't had an accident and several men died unexpectedly, Wang Ying would have remained unknown in Taiyuan, becoming a family member, betrothed to someone, and then conclude a certain deal.

Under such circumstances, what qualifications does she have to advise Zhen Mi?

What's more, Wang Ying herself is not very good at communication and communication. Although she is studying hard, she has missed the best time of her youth and it is very difficult to learn now.

As for Xin Xianying, she understands it somewhat, but not completely. As someone from an aristocratic family, he lacks in everything but experience and age. After all, at her current age, there are still many people in the future who just want to eat, drink, have fun and express themselves. It is already rare to have someone like Xin Xianying who can think about the world.

So besides Zhen Mi, the only one who can truly understand and understand the reason why Zhen Mi did this is Wang Shu.

Wang Shu himself also had ambitions...

Moreover, Wang Shu's original identity was once even more unpopular with big men than a businessman.

Wang Shu could understand Zhen Mi's thoughts, and to be honest, it was not easy to pick it up, and even more difficult to put it down. Therefore, Wang Shu didn't give much advice, and just said lightly: "You have to think about it... This matter cannot be repented of just because you say you regret it..."

Zhen Mi gave Wang Shu a look like a sister who understands me, and then sighed slightly, "If you give up... you may still have your life, but if you don't give up... you may even lose your life..."

Wang Shu didn't know what he thought of, and he sighed while accompanying Zhen Mi and stopped talking.

Xin Xianying clicked her tongue a few times. Apparently, she didn't really feel much about Zhen Mi's emotion. Instead, she felt sorry for the things that Zhen Mi would give up.

Wang Ying was silent for a long time, then raised his eyes and looked at Zhen Mi, "In what name do you plan to donate it?" 』

Zhen Mi smiled, like thousands of flowers blooming, "Isn't this the second young master's full moon?" 』

The other three people were either stunned or dumbfounded, and Wang Shu laughed and clapped his hands without thinking it was a big deal...

Zhen Mi still smiled lightly, but there was a bit more determination in her eyes. .

This time, under the eyes of the public, I want to completely cut off the connection between the businessman attribute in myself and the Zhen family!

Why do you have to listen to other people's arrangements your whole life?

Merchants, for most of the Han Dynasty, played a less honorable role.

Then Zhen Mi is still a smaller part of the businessmen, businesswomen.

Fei Qian's preferential policies and relaxed attitude towards businessmen cannot change ordinary people's feelings and understanding of businessmen. The four words "no business without treachery" are a curse that will never go away from the bones of businessmen, and sooner or later it will break out. .

Because since the Han Dynasty, people in almost all social classes have not had much favorable impression of businessmen. This situation is by no means as simple as suppressing the so-called "scholars, farmers, industry and commerce" in Confucianism, but has more profound factors...

Can someone who is praised to heaven every day be able to go to heaven?

It's like the slogan of "emphasis on agriculture" is shouted every day, but in the feudal dynasty, how much time was spent truly caring about and taking care of the hardworking people of Guangda?

Therefore, propaganda is on the one hand, and on the other hand, it is caused by the actions of the businessmen themselves. So many times, killing a "profiteer" is like killing a "corrupt official". It does not require any explanation and will be greeted with applause. This relatively formed a semi-solidified thinking mode. In the long history of history, it has been defined by the merchants themselves.

The businessmen of the Han Dynasty originally grew up with the Han Dynasty. Just like a sapling, when it is sprouting and breaking through the ground, no one can imagine that it will grow crooked.

At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, after the Qin Dynasty, the husbands joined the army, the old and the weak were transferred to food and salary, weak productivity and a large reduction in the population led to an extreme shortage of materials in the entire society. Even the emperor could not find four horses of the same color. As a ceremonial vehicle, let alone ordinary people, it makes a lot of noise.

In this situation, the businessman became rich. Under the premise that many people in the Han Dynasty were small farmers, the people were poor, the treasury was empty, and technology was lacking, some businessmen in the Han Dynasty suddenly became very rich.

However, many of these businessmen have forgotten one thing...

In order to develop the economy, the Han Dynasty opened up the mountains and rivers, implemented a certain degree of free trade policy, promoted the development of various manufacturing handicrafts including salt and iron, and exempted commerce from taxes on the passes. , giving merchants the right to purchase and use slaves.

So these businessmen used nearly free land, forestry, mining and other resources, coupled with almost free slave labor, to quickly accumulate a large amount of capital. When most people in the Han Dynasty were poor and distressed, they accumulated a lot of capital. They have accumulated tens of millions of wealth and are known as "Three Thousand People". They have cattle and horses with thousands of hooves, sheep and pigs with thousands of pairs, slaves with thousands of fingers, extravagant and absurd, fighting for wealth and other weird behaviors emerge one after another.

The human heart is like this. It doesn't matter if everyone is poor, they can still live in harmony. But once someone becomes rich, it does not bring benefits to others, but has a worse impact. The psychological imbalance is secondary. For The turbulent impact of social order is the most fatal problem!

Especially businessmen, although most people are smart and know how to restrain themselves, not show off their wealth, or show off their wealth, but there is nothing they can do about the rich second generation who have lost their minds, and there is no way to avoid the inherent rat turds among businessmen. After all, things like rat droppings are normally distributed with the population base, so there is no way to avoid it...

Some businessmen make fortunes through massive speculation and hoarding, exploiting ordinary people by taking advantage of frequent price fluctuations caused by natural disasters. They also regard this behavior as a "normal" business method, package it, advocate or even show off such behavior, and also Those who openly ridicule those who are exploited are untouchables, idiots, and lazy people. They deserve to be exploited and deserve to never be able to stand up again. They do not care at all whether such remarks and actions will bring any impact or hidden dangers to the development of society.

What’s interesting is that in the early days of the Han Dynasty, most of the merchants and nobles were untouchables in the mouth of the old nobles. They once hated such titles. However, after the merchants and nobles developed individually, they gave such titles to others. .

Especially businessmen who suddenly become rich in the countryside, they really don't regard ordinary people as human beings, and think that everything can be settled with money...

Being able to make money is a very good ability, but being able to spend money is a more important talent, even a talent.

Of course, spending money here is not about random spending and squandering, but about knowing how to use money in the right place, such as Feiqian. Those who don’t understand this are basically New Year pigs. When this kind of businessman with no sense of social responsibility feels that he can use natural disasters, information asymmetry and unbalanced social development in Han society to cruelly exploit the grassroots people economically and turn a blind eye to the negative consequences. Under such circumstances, if we don’t kill this New Year pig, why don’t we keep it and kill it next year?

But many merchants don't understand this. This is also a curse in the merchant's own bones. After all, from the beginning, the baht has to be accumulated bit by bit, so how can it be easily put down?

How can it be a sin to earn something based on one's own ability?

Deng Tong howled like this, Dong Xian also shouted like this, and then when Shi Chong came, there was no change, and even people still shouted like this until later generations. Because these people can't figure it out until they die, what is called a pig standing on the wind? The real reason why it can fly is not the pig, but the wind that blows at a specific time and place.

In the face of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's determination to fight against foreigners, these merchants still relied on their own money and ignored the wishes of the court and the people. They even joined forces with the rangers to recruit people into households, resist the court's orders, promote themselves, and promote themselves. The land was granted to the country, so it was called "Su Feng" by Sima Qian.

If such a person does not deserve to die, who will?

In addition, in order to maintain their excess income, merchants would also bribe officials in addition to their commercial activities. After all, do ordinary people have the spare money to bribe officials? So much so that at that time, ministers, officials, and county officials were all vying for extravagance. They bought houses, cars, and luxury clothes and jewelry without restraint. In order to obtain the money they received from merchants, "officials danced, danced, and carved fake books. Those who do not avoid being punished by swords and saws will not be rich."

This behavior naturally attracted sanctions from the rulers.

But some businessmen failed to understand. They didn't know, or pretended not to know, that all business activities were based on their country and its citizens, even those that transcended national territory in the Age of Discovery. The large-scale trade also has the support of its country's strength. Otherwise, the sea coachman would have unified the world long ago, instead of the two big jigs having their turn until the sun never sets.

When these businessmen were sanctioned and faced death, it was the officials who accepted bribes who worked the hardest. After all, on the one hand, they could destroy the original evidence of bribery, and on the other hand, their heads could be used to make achievements, not to mention how happy they were.

So some businessmen learned the hard way, but they didn't think clearly about what they should do. Instead, they decided that they wanted to gain power and go against the country, even at the cost of selling the country's interests as a bridge to another country. But there was that place Will traitors be welcomed to gather together?

At the beginning, Zhen Mi couldn't figure it out, but as time went by, after silently observing some of Fei Qian's actions, especially this time after the Zhen family sent someone...

With my heart chilling, I could see more clearly.

Did Zhen Yao come to Chang'an to help Zhen Mi?

Apparently not.

What do businessmen focus on? Goods? That was what ordinary businessmen did, but in Zhen's case, it was more about connections.

When Zhen Mi brought the gold-painted fan business to Jizhou, although she had the original connections through the Zhen family, she also injected new energy into the Zhen family who had made a heavy bet on Yuan Shao and suffered a heavy blow. vitality.

Later, things such as the Western Region Sachet operated by Zhen Mi completely disrupted the balance within the Zhen family.

The Zhen family also had properties in Jizhou, and there were quite a lot of them, covering a wide range of areas, covering almost all areas of people's livelihood and military matters, so much so that Yuan Shao at that time had to throw away one of his sons in exchange for the Zhen family's support in logistics. Full support.

Under such circumstances, how could Yuan Xi, who was arrogant and arrogant, have a good attitude towards Zhen Mi, who just came with gifts in business?

Well, that's right, Zhen Mi is not even Yuan Xi's wife, she is just a concubine.

Historical books also use the word "na" instead of "marry".

Yuan Xi himself also has a wife, the upright Wu family. Even when Yuan Xi went to Youzhou to take office, he abandoned Zhen Mi inconveniently and asked Zhen Mi to "keep an aunt" like a servant. Of course, there may be some relationship between Zhen Mi and Zhen Mi that she had not grown up with back then. After all, not everyone is like Mr. Zhang.

But these are not the key points, but it is the first time Zhen Mi has tasted the class gap under the suppression of power.

Zhen Mi, who has been said to be destined to be rich since she was a child, did not really become "rich" after she actually entered the Yuan family. Because no one takes Zhen Mi's so-called "fate of wealth" seriously. After all, from the Spring and Autumn Period to the Warring States Period, and then to the Qin and Han Dynasties, from the old nobles to the new aristocratic families, from cutting off thigh meat to serve the master to lying on the ice The carp throws itself in, there is only an unexpected reputation, and there is nothing that cannot be boasted, so what is Zhen Mi's "fate of wealth"?

It's just a country bumpkin's self-promotion, and no one, including Yuan Xi, will take it seriously.

The little princess who was originally a noble lady at home, came to Yuan's house and became a servant who shouted around...

Even as a wife, she has to be suppressed by Mrs. Yuan Shao's mother-in-law in the Yuan family, so much so that she doesn't even dare to let out a fart. It's almost like in the post-Japanese countries. If the crown prince's wife wears inappropriate gloves and a length of her elbow is exposed, which is less than three inches long, she will be raised to the height of royal dignity, and then she has to kneel down to apologize and be criticized for several hours. Just like writing a letter of apology, the rules in a big family like the Yuan family with four generations and three princes are far beyond Zhen Mi's imagination.

But that was the first blow.

Just like the old woman in the Yuan family's mansion in history betrayed Zhen Mi to please Boss Cao in exchange for avoiding death, Zhen Mi was thrown out by Yuan Shang early like a pet dog and was sent to Chang'an to please Fei. latent……

The key is that everyone in the Zhen family, including Zhen Mi's brothers, really cooperated and didn't feel there was any problem at all.

Now, it was the third blow, and it was the most painful one for Zhen Mi.

Although he is said to be naturally intelligent, he was still young when he first started, and his understanding of the world was not enough. In his ignorance, he thought that the blame and making things difficult were all deserved, and he did not pay attention to his personal emotions, but was just cautious. Serving the parents-in-law.

The second time, he was full of fantasies of self-sacrifice, feeling that he had grown up and could take care of Mrs. Zhen...

Therefore, with such spiritual support, Zhen Mi tried his best to show his personal charm in front of Fei Qian, but failed and hit the stone wall. In terms of appearance, Zhen Mi may be better, but apart from appearance, she is almost useless.

And Zhen Mi, who has grown up a little, also realizes that appearance will fade over time. How many years does youth last? If you don't have any ability, will you be thrown away like an old dog when your beauty fades? That is when Zhen Mi started to do business things seriously.

Watching the people she brought develop in Chang'an little by little, and then get bigger and bigger, recruiting people, expanding the caravan, developing new products, and in turn selling them to Jizhou, Zhen Mi found herself among them. The meaning of existence is not just a face.

In the end, the meaning that Zhen Mi found for herself would be deprived by her own people.

Family is more important than anything else.

So you should dedicate everything to your family without any regrets?

Perhaps a few years ago, Zhen Mi would have really thought this way. After all, in the Jizhou area, this kind of thinking was circulated and the same was discussed.

Zhen Mi sometimes thinks that if she were still in Jizhou, she would definitely not have the courage now!

Because I came to Chang'an, because I came to Sanfu, because I met more different people, because I had all kinds of new thoughts and trends in Qinglong Temple's lectures, and the most important thing is because I left the Zhen family's base camp and relied on myself for everything. After building it up little by little, I suddenly discovered the joy of being able to control my own life!

Don't do it deliberately, be careful and look at whose face looks good every day when you open your eyes, and then you can decide whether the weather today will be cloudy or sunny!

But now, Zhen Yao is here.

With the orders within the clan, there is no discussion or mercy.

After all, Zhen Mi is a woman...

And I can’t take on the hussar general, so I don’t know who will get the advantage? What if Zhen Mi was confused that day and found a pretty boy or something, and then posted it upside down, wouldn't it mean that she would lose a lot of money?

In the past, don't worry, it was just a small fight between Zhen Mi, and there was still a gap between it and the Zhen family's base camp in Jizhou. Later, when Fei Qian opened the Western Region, all kinds of spices and products came in like a shocking wave, and the Zhen family in Jizhou was immediately overwhelmed. The base camp's only sense of superiority was shattered into pieces.

Think about it, an ordinary wooden box can only earn about five baht. If you paint it with paint, you can earn about 30 baht. If you cover it with silk, you can earn about a hundred baht. And such an empty box can go around in a circle. , and then loaded up the spices and products from the Western Regions from Chang'an and returned to Jizhou, selling for tens of thousands!

This price difference naturally makes people crazy!

In the face of excessive profits, many businessmen accidentally throw away people. Only businessmen are left, only pure business, what kind of humanity and family affection can there be?

But Zhen Yao never expected that Zhen Mi, who was pushed around by them like a beautiful commodity, without any emotion or complaint, and seemed to be obedient in everything, would now also have a rebellious heart. And it’s the craziest rebound!