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Volume 3: The Wind Rises in the Eastern Capital Chapter 380: A little bird sold for a million dollars

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    Hearing that Zhen Yao actually brought this matter to the emperor, the old men felt uncomfortable. They were all subjects of the Han Dynasty. They had been taught since childhood to be loyal to the emperor and the Han Dynasty. For most of their lives, they had been loyal to the emperor and the emperor.  Do this.  (Update the latest chapter of this book)

    Even if he now lives in seclusion among his neighbors and no longer cares about the rights and wrongs of these things, he still doesn't want to hear words like what Zhen Yao said, which do not take the emperor into consideration at all.

    Mrs. Zhang was deeply moved by what Zhen Yao said before. She stopped crying at this moment, pulled Zhen Yao and said urgently: "My son, be careful what you say. You must not say this to others outside."

    "Don't worry, mother." Zhen Yao nodded with a smile. Although he was a little surprised by the secret revealed today, he was only surprised.  Suppressing his emotions, he was once again the master of Wuji whose face remained unchanged despite the collapse of Mount Tai.

    The little figure hiding behind the door did not come out after all, and retreated step by step into the inner courtyard, while Zhen Yao glanced thoughtfully towards the side door.  Then he asked the old butler Zhen Fu to prepare a dinner, leaving Cai Yong and others to share it.

    "This meal was not interesting for the elderly people, and Mrs. Zhang was also absent-minded, because although Zhen Yao's life experience was revealed, there was still no way to solve the problem. They never thought about the emperor's marriage.  Road, and what Zhen Yao said before, the old people just listened to it in anger.

    After Mrs. Zhang had something to eat, she went back to the inner room to rest.  After the banquet, Zhen Yao sent Cai Yong, Kong Rong and others out of the mansion. Just as he was about to return to his small courtyard, he was stopped by Zhen Yan.

    "Brothers and I, we haven't had such a chat for a long time." In the pavilion of the mansion, a pot of warm tea was placed on the stone table. Zhen Yan spoke first: "I am very happy for the third brother's decision today."

    Zhen Yao nodded with emotion. When the two brothers were young, the second brother went to Luoyang. It was not until Zhen Yan came back after the Yellow Turban Rebellion that the two brothers could often get together.  And when he, as a prince, fought continuously and captured more and more territory, the communication between the two brothers became even less, and they often only chatted once every few months.

    "Is the second brother afraid that my younger brother will not recognize you?" Zhen Yao laughed and raised his glass: "Maybe Yao is the queen of Master Du, but my mother brought Yao up with her own hands, how can Yao forget his roots? Just treat this as if it never happened.  , I, Zhen Yao, am still Zhen Yao."

    Zhen Yan also smiled when he heard this: "Although mother and Yan are happy, but little sister? Do you want to let little sister wait until she is old? Now that little sister is nearly twenty years old, if it were mother, she would have married her father long ago."

    Speaking of Zhen Mi, Zhen Yao couldn't help but straighten his face: "Second brother, don't worry, Yao won't let Mi'er wait too long. Didn't I say that if the wedding is not the time now, the emperor will be happy when Yao captures Chang'an and welcomes back the emperor?"  He helped Yao."

    Zhen Yan was speechless after hearing this. She thought it was just Zhen Yao talking, but she didn't expect that her third brother really thought so.  But if you think about it carefully, you have to admit that this method may be the best way to resolve the conflict between wedding etiquette and law.

    The two brothers stopped talking about this matter and turned to the current power disputes among the Han Dynasty. Zhen Yan saw the efforts of his third brother over the years. Although he was equally shrewd and no longer served as an official beside Zhen Yao, he still  He also knew that if he continued on this momentum, he would eventually reach the final step, and at Zhen Yao's speed, it didn't seem like it would take too long.

    Zhen Yao was also quite helpless about this. He knew Cao Cao's difficulties in history. Based on Cao Cao's true intentions, he was unwilling to proclaim himself emperor.  But does Cao Cao have a way out?  No!  As my father Zhen Yi said before his death, it is impossible to quit after embarking on this road. We can only move forward with all our strength and cannot take a step back.

    Zhen Yao doesn¡¯t want to think about what will happen in the future when he really surrenders all the pig¡¯s feet under his feet. What he needs to prepare now is to accumulate more strength while he is recuperating.  When the war breaks out again, I'm afraid the war will continue for years.

    At the end of the conversation, Zhen Yan suddenly said: "If the third brother attacks Chang'an, will you take the second brother with you? The second brother's post of prefect was still granted by the late emperor. If the third brother wants to rescue the emperor, the second brother is willing to help you."  .¡±

    Since Zhen Yao stabilized the family business in Jizhou, Zhen Yan has not held any position again. According to his words, Zhen Yao has a collection of talents, no one more than him is too much, and no one less than him is no less.  It would be better to spend more time with his elderly mother at home and be diligent in studying. Such a life was what he had always longed for back then.

    Zhen Yao knew that his second brother's talent and learning were almost as good as those of the scholars around him. When he was sent out to serve as the county governor, the recovery and development under his rule followed Wuji closely.  However, Zhen Yan himself did not want to be an official, and Zhen Yao did not force him.

    Now that the second brother wants to attack Chang'an with him, Zhen Yao immediately understands that the emotions of his two brothers have not been affected by today's events.  There is only one place in Chang'an, and there are no more than ten thousand soldiers left. There may only be two or three generals, but for Zhen Yao, if he wants toIf he attacks, perhaps this will be the most difficult battle in his life.

    Zhen Yao knows it, and Zhen Yan also knows it, otherwise she wouldn¡¯t have said that.  Zhen Yao nodded without even thinking about it: "Second brother is willing to help Yao, but Yao is too late to be happy! It's just a matter of Chang'an, and it's just the words of my younger brother. If you want to realize it, you still need to wait for the opportunity."

    The two brothers sat in the pavilion for an hour. The tea on the stone table was already cold. Seeing that it was getting late, Zhen Yao started talking about rest, and then the two of them walked to the backyard of the mansion together.

    When she woke up the next day, Zhen Yao got dressed as usual and prepared to go to the Prefectural Mud Mansion for work, but when she looked out the window, she saw her little sister in the courtyard.  Putting on his boots and a coat, Zhen Yao stood up and walked towards the door.

    The morning in late spring and early summer was still slightly cool. Zhen Yao walked out of the house and came to the courtyard. He put the skin on Zhen Mi's shoulders and said, "My little sister got up early today, but what happened?"

    "Third brother, is what third brother said yesterday true?" Zhen Mi eavesdropped on the conversation between Zhen Yao and several old people at the side door yesterday, and she couldn't sleep well all night.  Tossing and turning, I was happy and nervous at the same time, so I came to Zhen Yao at dawn today to seek the truth.

    Zhen Yao also heard footsteps at the side door yesterday. He thought someone might be eavesdropping, but he didn't expect it to be Zhen Mi.  Now Zhen Mi came to ask, he immediately reached out and rubbed his little sister's head, nodded and said: "When did Yao lie to Mi'er!"

    When Zhen Mi received Zhen Yao's affirmative reply, the throbbing in her heart could not be recovered: "Mi'er, Mi'er really doesn't have to wait much longer before she can be with her third brother for the rest of her life?" As she spoke, tears welled up in her eyes.

    "Yes, my silly sister!" Zhen Yao said with a chuckle, holding Zhen Mi in his arms.

    "Mi'er, you're not stupid!" Zhen Mi snorted, enjoying the feeling of being held in her arms by her third brother. She stopped talking, closed her eyes and leaned against Zhen Yao. What came to her ears was  Yao's heart beat vigorously.

    Days passed by, and when the banquet incident gradually faded away in the late Han Dynasty, when war was the main theme, new news came out in Wuji.  That is, along with the spread of several poems and poems in the literary banquet that were famous throughout the Han Dynasty, a news also spread among the upper-class nobles. The parrots praised by the great scholars from all over the world and made poems for them were actually ready to be sold.

    This was naturally Zhen Yao¡¯s arrangement. In fact, before he signaled Mi Zhen to announce the news, he had selected some of the good poems and verses from the banquet and made a collection of them.

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    The preface to this collection was written by Zhen Yao himself. There are not many words. It simply introduces the banquet, and then embellishes the agility and beauty of several parrots.

    I wrote this preface, firstly, for better publicity, and secondly, naturally, to name the Seventh Son.  Zhen Yao believed that if this "Collection of Spiritual Birds" had not been lost, then when people later heard about Chen Lin and Kong Rong, the first thing they would think of would be the "Seven Sons of Wuji".

    This album is entirely made of paper stitched together, so it has many advantages over bamboo strips for reading.  Because it involves all parties and forces, and also for the sake of subsequent hype.  Zhen Yao gritted his teeth and ordered the inner city to print tens of thousands of copies for him.

    The late Han Dynasty was not a modern period. Ten thousand books was a very exaggerated number.  However, Zhen Yao's book was not sold for money, so in just half a month, 10,000 copies of the "Spiritual Bird Collection" were distributed to all parts of the Han Dynasty.

    At this time, the effect Zhen Yao wanted came out. The news came from the scouts in various places. No matter which state or county they were in, as long as they were scribes, there was no one who didn't know about the "Spirit Bird Collection", and there was no one who didn't know about the parrot.  Bird's.

    Although there is some credit for the original Wenyan promotion, it has to be said that this collection is indeed the latest and most outstanding collection of poems and poems in the Han Dynasty at the moment.  Every poem, every fu, and even some short dialogue lines in it were talked about by many scribes.

    Zhen Yao, who had controlled the public opinion of the entire Han Dynasty scribes for the first time, seemed very excited. This was the effect he wanted. The money spent on ordering 10,000 books was indeed not wasted.

    Zhen Yao even knew that some people didn't get it themselves. Even if they read it from friends, they couldn't help but borrow it and copy it over themselves. Or they could put it by their bedside every day and recite it when they wake up.

    With this style of writing, even if the Mi Family Trading Company very low-key claimed that the parrots could be bought and sold, many people came to inquire about it.  And this so-called "low-key" is naturally still the work of Zhen Yao, euphemistically called maintaining a certain kind of secrecy and specialness.

    Although not a single parrot has been sold yet, Zhen Yao is just waiting and watching. As long as this parrot trend continues to spread in Dahan, the pet industry will gain a foothold in Dahan.

    ? ?When the great Confucian scholars who participated in the cultural banquet learned about the news, they were all dumbfounded. Even Kong Rong and others in the academy asked many times.  Naturally, Zhen Yao would not reveal his original purpose of opening the banquet. He only said that the Mi family took a fancy to this "parrot style" and discussed making money with him, and he agreed.

    Although this kind of excuse did not satisfy the great scholars, they still felt helpless about what Zhen Yao was doing now, so they stopped asking about it and concentrated on staying in the academy and teaching their students carefully.

    If the great Confucians did not pursue the matter, those scribes who had benefited from the "Lingniao Ji" would not jump out to oppose Zhen Yao at this time.  For example, Cao Pi, one of the three Cao Cao, was originally regarded as weaker than Cao Zhi among the Cao family. However, after the overwhelming publicity campaign of "Spirit Bird Collection", he has surpassed Cao Zhi and is vaguely comparable to his father.  fame.

    As for the remaining little fish and shrimps, although there are many who come out to criticize Zhen Yao's stinking style of merchants, they are only a few people with little influence after all. No matter how hard they compete, they can't compete with the current big man.  Public opinion is in the opposite direction.

    At this time, there was news in Wuji that the first parrot was sold. The person who got it was a descendant of a certain gentry in Jizhou. He spent thousands of dollars and finally bought a spiritual bird.

    The common people are gossips, and they are keen on passing on such wonderful stories orally.  A little bird is bought back by someone with tens of thousands of dollars. In the eyes of ordinary people, the person who bought the little bird must have a rich family that is going to be moldy.

    Of course, this news was still falsely spread by Zhen Yao. In fact, the parrot has been so hyped that although it can be sold at a very high price, it is still difficult to get tens of thousands of dollars.  After all, a good horse only costs a thousand bucks.

    Zhen Yao¡¯s own hype ends here. He has many things to do every day, so naturally he won¡¯t devote himself to such small business matters.  And Mi Zhen, who had been watching Zhen Yao's hype and taking over the business, was also very excited and promised him that by the end of the year, Zhen Yao would be able to earn enough military expenses for the next year's expedition.

    During this period, many interesting things happened. For example, Mi Heng followed Cao Pi to Cao Cao's place, but because of Cao Cao's employment mechanism, he had a face-to-face debate with Cao Cao.  Then he even cursed Cao Cao and his subordinate Wen Wu.

    He was scolded, but because the other party was well-known, Cao Cao couldn't do anything to Mi Heng.  Feeling unhappy, he simply sent Mi Heng as an envoy to Xiangyang.  After Cao Cao captured Nanyang, he had not yet negotiated with Jingzhou.

    Mi Heng went to Liu Biao as he did in history. If it were a different messenger, Liu Biao might have killed him to vent his anger.  Zhang Ji's uncle and nephew finally left, and he was ready to take back Nanyang, but now Cao Cao has taken over it again.

    However, Liu Biao has always valued celebrities, and Mi Heng was also called a "Jian'an Crazy Confucian" by Zhen Yao in the "Lingniao Ji". Liu Biao simply kept Mi Heng in Xiangyang.

    When he arrived in Xiangyang, Ni Heng, a foreign Confucian scholar, was naturally squeezed out by the scholars in Jingxiang.  A madman is a madman, and he once again went to war with the scribes in Jingzhou and Xiangzhou, and brought the war to the lord of Jingzhou, Liu Biao.

    Only then did Liu Biao realize why Zhen Yao and Cao Cao no longer used this person. With this kind of temper, there was no way he could use him even if he wanted to.  As a last resort, he was transferred out again and sent to Jiangxia to work as a secretary for Huang Zu.

    Mi Heng finally embarked on a historical path. At this time, Mi Zhen had already begun to meet many buyers and successfully sold two parrots that were trained to be smart and attractive enough.

    Although neither of the two parrots was sold for more than 10,000 yuan, the total price was a total of 13,000 yuan.  Based on Jizhou's current price of 50 guan of gold for one ingot of 130 shi of grain, this is more than 30,000 shi of grain.  And 30,000 shi of grain is enough to feed more than 50,000 soldiers and horses for half a month.

    These are just two, there are more than a dozen parrots of the same period waiting to be sold, and after that, there were many people sent by the Mi Family Trading Company to look for parrots in various places.  After Zhen Yao heard about it, he couldn't help sighing. Maybe it wouldn't be until next year that this little girl could raise enough military expenses for herself.

    And when Zhen Yao told the girls about this as a conversation piece in the kitchen, even Cai Yan, who was least interested in business, sighed: "My sister Mi Zhen is really good at business."

    In the blink of an eye, it was the Mid-Autumn Festival in the fifth year of Jian'an (AD 200). Zhen Yao was admiring the moon with his family in the courtyard, but his interest was disturbed by the messengers under his command.  The messenger came to Zhen's Mansion just to report to Zhen Yao that Guo Jijiu had something urgent to report.

    Helpless, Zhen Yao could only go to Yichun Courtyard. Since Guo Jia started training dancers, it has become a place for the two to discuss secret matters.  Arriving at Goulan's backyard, he was quickly led into the secret room and met Guo Jia, who had been waiting for him for some time.

    Zhen Yao was not particular about it. He just pulled up a soft cushion and sat down, then asked: "Feng Xiao is so anxious, but what happened?"What?  "

    Guo Jia nodded: "In Chang'an, there is news from a girl. The emperor seems to have written a blood edict, asking all the princes to rescue him."

    "Blood edict?" After hearing these two words, Zhen Yao naturally thought about the 'clothing edict' incident. After hearing Guo Jiaxi's explanation, he nodded repeatedly. Although it was different from the 'clothing edict' in the history of his previous life.  There are differences, but the essence is the same.

    "Recently, courtiers in Chang'an have been forced to kill by Li Ru one after another. I'm afraid they are all implicated in this matter." Guo Jia shook his head and sighed: "And there are rumors that this blood edict has been spread out of Chang'an City. It is not yet known whether it was sent to the Han Dynasty.  Where."

    Zhen Yao¡¯s face darkened when he heard this: ¡°As a sign of filial piety, will someone else take this opportunity to send troops to Chang¡¯an?¡±

    Guo Jia smiled bitterly and nodded: "If the emperor is smart enough, he will not send a message to the lord, but will choose a weaker prince. In this way, he can escape life in Chang'an." The implication is obvious, that is,  Zhen Yao's power was too great, and the emperor had already taken care of him. He was afraid that if he came to Wuji, he would still end up in captivity.

    "Will it be Cao Cao? Or Ma Teng?" When Zhen Yao thought about it, apart from himself, among the several princes close to Chang'an in the Han Dynasty, these two were considered to be good forces.  And among the two, Cao Cao was smart enough to see the benefits of getting the emperor; while Ma Teng still maintained a supportive attitude towards the emperor and was also likely to send troops to Chang'an.

    Originally, if Emperor Xian wanted to escape, it would be most suitable for him to go to Liu Biao or Liu Zhang, who were both members of the Han clan. However, one of them was captured by Cao Cao in Nanyang, the northern gateway, and the other was blocked in Shu by Zhang Lu, so it was impossible for them to do anything.

    Guo Jia continued: "My lord, the only way we can take the initiative now is to forge a blood letter and follow the trend of the day to challenge Dong, and lead the princes from all walks of life to gather at Tongguan. Only then can we take the initiative in Chang'an."

    No wonder Guo Jia came to see him so late instead of going to the state pastoral office tomorrow morning.  We really can't let unnecessary people know about such fake things.  Fortunately, Guo Jia dared to think about it. At least Zhen Yao didn't think about forgery at the first time. He just wanted to find out how to intercept the blood book halfway.

    "It's not a bad idea to forge a blood letter," Zhen Yao touched his chin and thought about the feasibility of this method, and finally said: "It's just that Wuji currently has insufficient reserves of food and supplies, and the new recruits in the military camp are still training, even if the blood letter is spread  , and how to go on an expedition?"

    Guo Jiasu was quick-witted and unconventional. Hearing Zhen Yao's concerns, he immediately replied: "My lord does not need to mobilize many soldiers and horses, only five thousand horses are enough. My lord can issue a blood letter,  He also led five thousand horsemen to go south to Tongguan and gathered troops and horses from Tongguan and Luoyang. Although it is not many, it is enough for a battle."
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