Chapter 129: Calculating

The Zhang Shi felt a little uncomfortable when seeing Ju Shou sitting in the government office with the heads of the major families, but the self-confidence of the Jizhou rich family still prevented her from thinking about these things.

Soon after receiving the letter from Yuan Shao, the Mi family and the Zhen family broke out this kind of incident. He could not think about it or deliberately investigate it. In other words, after the official received the signal sent by Mi Zhu to the Jizhou's governmet office, they quickly received it. He understand that what Liu Bei wants is the Zhen family.

What does the Zhen family have? Ju Shou thought carefully and found that it was nothing more than the contacts, trade, and wealth in the north. But these were nothing compared to Jizhou, especially after the two lines of river network that Yuan Cheng had injected into Jizhou. Based on Yuan Shao, Ju Shou, and Tian Feng's visions, they all understand that Jizhou's aristocratic family needs to be weakened. Jizhou can only have one voice, and that is the Yuan family!

However, there is a saying that the strong dragon does not suppress the ground snake. The Yuan family is powerful, but the Geng family, Cui family, Zhang family, and Zhen family in Jizhou are all aristocratic families that lived for hundreds of years. They may not be as influential in the Central Plains as the Yuan family. But comparing inside Jizhou, if the four families joined forces, the Yuan family should not even think about taking any advantage.

This is also why it is necessary to win over the local forces when Yuan Shao came to Jizhou. The local snakes are too strong.

The information released by Mi family is actually good news for Jizhou officials, but even so Ju Shou also sent a letter to Chen Xi, warning Chen Xi not to be intrusive. And Chen Xi's reply relieved Ju Shou a lot. Fighting with Qingzhou has tired them and we are burdened by millions of Yellow Turbans. You can make a fair judgement at that time, and then give me a million stones of food.

After reading it, Ju Shou passed the letter to the front line, but he already knew how to deal with it. One million stones for grain is not a big problem now that Jizhou is prosperous with last year bumper harvest. The government's grain reserves exceeded 20 million stones, and one million stones is worthless for them.

While arguing with Chen Xi through the letters, Ju Shou told Mi Zhu not to be anxious and don't speak to the Zhen family first. He was not ready yet. He quietly contacted the heads of the families in Jizhou to clarify the current situation and even took out the battle report.

It is said that the different families in Jizhou are of different sizes, and there are no professional intelligence agency. The intelligence system is naturally very chaotic. Although they know that Taishan sends troops to deal with the Yellow Turbans, but what is the current accurate situation? The best intelligence system is with the Cui family who also knew that Chen Xi had defeated the Yellow Turbans. This incident was shocking to patriarch Cui, but it had nothing to do with the Cui family. Well, at least patriarch Cui thought so.

After Ju Shou took out the latest battle report and handed it to the family heads of Jizhou, all the family heads turned black. Gongsun Zan is considered to be an enemy outside the territory, so there is no need to worry about a raging war in front of their house and breaking the bottles and cans.

What about Chen Xi? More than one million Yellow Turbans have all been defeated in a month. This kind of character is now at their door, sharpening his knives. Isn't it asking if they want to die?

All the patriarchs stared at Ju Shou for a moment, then patriarch Cui glanced around and frowned slightly. Such important events, but he did not see the Zhen family. He did not understand the military strategy, but he knew family affairs very well. If the Zhen family is to be excluded from the group, then the matter to be discussed is related to the Zhen family. Otherwise, according to the identity of the Zhen family, there must be a place for them.

Similarly, those patriarchs with good eyesight and flexible brains also found the unusual things, so they just stared at Ju Shou instead of talking.

Soon the turbulent audience fell silent, and staring at Ju Shou who was sitting on the main seat.

"It is indeed related to the Zhen family at this time." Ju Shou smiled and said. He let them guess so that the other party could understand his own thoughts when he said it.

"This is Chen Xi's letter. Everyone think about it. I'll go out first. The fate of Jizhou is in your hands." Ju Shou played the slippery head. After handing over Chen Xi's letter, he left without giving anyone time to react.

After half an hour, Ju Shou was invited back. As he expected, the Zhen family was kicked out of the circle directly. Even the Zhang family who had a good relationship with the Zhen family did not say anything. In the face of the life and death of the family, all the families silently chose their own interests. According to the head of the Geng family, since the Zhen family to involve the entire Jizhou in the war, the Zhen family was now out of the game.

With the support of all the families in Jizhou, Ju Shou 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 that the four major families in Jizhou were fractured, and the overall strength had appeared a decline. The Yuan family has the possibility to intervene.

After accounting for the Zhen family's wealth, Ju Shou sent a letter to Yuan Shao overnight. He has a better plan. Since Chen Xi wants to play, he doesn't mind using Chen Xi's hand to conquer the four families in Hebei at once. Since you Chen Xi can do it, why can't I do it? The icing on the cake has no effect in giving charcoal in the snow. The joint efforts of Yuan family and Zhen family may not be able to integrate the whole Jizhou at once!

With this mindset, he began to make careful preparations, mobilizing the treasury's money with the idea of ​​guarding against Chen Xi. This is a good opportunity, a chance for the Yuan family to completely master Jizhou!

As long as he seize this opportunity, they can fully grasp the population of Jizhou, a large food-producing state, and the force that bursts out under the combination of military orders and decrees is absolutely enough to defeat Gongsun Zan, Then they can join the power of the three states, and the world can be expected to be in their hands!

Thinking of these things made Ju Shou feel extremely excited, and the feeling of leveraging the general trend of the world made him tremble. He was tipping the scale on misfortune and blessing. Ju Shou clearly felt this kind of support and dependence on him.

Zhang Shi gave a salute. Although the atmosphere was a little weird, she glanced at Ju Shou who was sitting on the main seat and immediately felt relieved. Jizhou officials did not turn out to be from the Mi family. With this guarantee, Zhang Shi was relieved a lot. If there was no Jizhou official, the fact that the Mi family wants to defeat the Zhen family in Jizhou is just a joke!

"Ms. Zhen, Mi Zhu, please take a seat." Ju Shou said with a flat face. Soon someone moved the chair and gestured the two of them to sit down.

Mi Zhu frowned slightly. Ju Shou gave him a seat next to the Zhang family. He could understand Zhang Shi getting a seat. After all, the Zhen family inherited the official position of two thousand stones, and Zhang Shi was eligible for the treatment as a wife. But he was just a businessman, not an official. Does Ju Shou 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 as Chen Xi had expected. At this point, the arrow has been sent on the string, and the Zhen family should be over.

After ordering people to move up a box of land deeds and proofs, Mi Zhu looked calm and said, "These documents are genuine, and I won't deny them with the Zhen family's credibility."

Soon Shu Zuo verified them all. After that, he stood up and said to Ju Shou, "Prefect, the lower officials have verified that all the land deeds and IOUs are signed by the Zhen family."

This time, in order to avoid omission, every official is his confidant. Naturally, he also knew that this time he did not need to have any bias. Speak with evidence, and don't worry about the identity of the other party!