Mi Zhu's family has lived in Xuzhou for generations, made a fortune by reclaiming wasteland, and gradually accumulated to Mi Zhu's generation, Xuzhou Mi family has become a famous wealthy businessman in the whole Han Dynasty.

Their family has 10,000 servants and children in Xuzhou, and a large number of fertile land and real estate, and the descendants of the family will seek a better step after the family is rich.

Therefore, the children learn literature and martial arts, and the children of the Mi family not only learn cultural knowledge, but also learn to ride and shoot, and the family has family soldiers, although the ancestors and the clansmen did not do officials, but they are also typical non-mainstream local tyrant families.

Mi's estate in Xuzhou was more lucrative than that of the equally wealthy Chen.

But the Mi family never dared to compare with the Chen family, because the Chen family was a scholar family, and there were people in the clan who were officials, and their social status was much higher than that of the Mi family.

Mi Zhu has been running around in Luoyang all the year round, not only to do business, but also to seek a step forward.

Let's see if I can find an opportunity to be recommended to find an official position, so as to add some confidence to the family, but a person like him, let alone being recommended, doesn't even have the qualifications to buy an official.

Although Emperor Ling said that he sold officials on a large scale, in the end, the people who bought officials were still innocent scholars, and they just chose to take refuge in the eunuch group, and Mi Zhu, as a businessman, did not enter the stream at all, so he could not talk about buying officials.

Because of this incident, Mi Zhu, who is becoming more and more wealthy, is very worried.

He thinks that the world is peaceful, although he often suffers a small loss in some places, but he spends some money to fix the relationship between the upper and lower levels, with the Mi family's financial resources and his own armed forces, the Chen family will not be too bullying, and their lives are still passable.

But once the world is in turmoil, he Mi is completely a fat sheep, or the kind of fat sheep that has no power to protect himself, and he will be easily eaten.

The turmoil in the world caused by the Yellow Turban Rebellion made Mi Zhu, who ran around the country to do business, saw a little clue, he was worried about it, and after returning to Xuzhou, he discussed this matter with his younger brother Mi Fang several times, and felt that the world was about to be unstable, and how to maintain Mi's huge family business?

Can the family business be protected by the force of one's own organization alone?

He was skeptical.

At this time, the family in Hebei, who was in charge of buying horses, sent back a news that surprised him extremely much.

Guo Peng, the well-known captain of the Karasuma school, hopes to seek cooperation in commercial trade from the Mi family, mainly the sale of livestock such as horses and cattle and sheep, he can get a large number of high-quality cattle, sheep and horses to provide guards, he needs the Mi family to provide sales channels, and the profits earned can be negotiated and shared, and everything can be discussed.

Mi Zhu was shocked at the time.

He has traveled to and from Luoyang many times, and he naturally knows the reputation of Guo Peng, a famous man in Luoyang, not only knowing, but also thundering.

Guo Peng was born in Yingchuan Guo, and in his early years, he followed the great Confucian Cai Yong to proofread books in Dongguan, and later worshiped Lu Zhi, the imperial lieutenant, as his teacher, and studied with Lu Zhi for several years.

coincided with the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Guo Peng followed Lu Zhi to join the army, made great contributions to beheading Zhang Liangsheng and capturing Zhang Jiao, and was appointed as the captain of the Karasuma school.

Then he defeated the attack of the Xianbei leader and the company during his tenure as captain of the guard Karasuma, killed the company and 10,000 Xianbei cavalry, and was able to be promoted to the Marquis of Yang Zhai Ting.

Now, Guo Peng has a reputation in Luoyang for "the demeanor of a celebrity and a famous general", and the main propaganda for him is Yuan Shu, the second son of the Yuan family in Runan.

Guo Peng and Yuan Shu have a very good relationship, the two have a close relationship, and they often drink and have fun together when they are in Luoyang, which shows that Guo Peng's fame is great and the relationship is deep.

Mi Zhu had heard of Guo Peng's fame for a long time, and he wanted to see but couldn't get it, but this time he actually learned that Guo Peng took the initiative to seek cooperation, and he was surprised and delighted, and Mi Fang told Mi Fang about it, and Mi Fang was also shocked.

"How could Guo Zifeng and others think of our family? Could there be fraud in this? ”

Mi Zhu shook his head again and again, disagreeing with Mi Fang's doubts.

"Guo Zifeng is a famous scholar in Luoyang, followed the Taiwei Lu Gong to study for several years, and his demeanor is frank and generous, and he is very respected by scholars.

Moreover, I also heard in Luoyang that he was very sympathetic to the soldiers in the army, ate coarse grain with the soldiers, personally led the soldiers into battle, and even bandaged the wounds of the soldiers, and the soldiers respected him more.

When he went north to serve as the captain of the Karasuma school, most of the old troops who had followed him to fight against the Yellow Turbans were willing to follow him north, and the heroes of Luoyang were vying to rely on him, and they were willing to follow him north at the expense of their family business, how could such a person deceive us as a trivial person? ”

Mi Fang didn't know how to deal with it after hearing this, so she no longer objected.

The Mi family really needs to seek a breakthrough in the upper class, otherwise, according to the current trend, the whole family will not be able to find someone to be an official, have nothing to rely on, and will not be recognized by the upper class, and no matter how much wealth the family has, it will be in vain.

So Mi Fang selected a hundred people who were good at fighting at home to escort Mi Zhu all the way north, Mi Zhu rode a horse, wore soft armor, and hid weapons on his body, and rushed to Ning County in late August to see Guo Peng as soon as possible.

Guo Peng learned that Mi Zhu was coming, and personally got up to greet Mi Zhu at the gate of the house.

"Your Excellency is Zizhong?"

Guo Peng greeted him with a smile, and when he saw Mi Zhu, who was standing tall and upright, he asked.

"Villain Mi Zhu, Mi Zizhong, meet Captain Guo!"

Mi Zhu bent down to worship, Guo Peng hurriedly helped him up, held his hand and patted him on the shoulder: "Just call me Zifeng, Zizhong came from afar, it's hard." ”

"Don't dare, don't dare."

Mi Zhu was sincerely afraid, Guo Peng smiled again, and said: "Everyone in the army calls me for an official position, but now I am not in the army, it is better to call me Guo Lang, how about it?" ”

"So...... The villain has trespassed, Guo Lang. ”

"Hahaha, Zizhong is too restrained, come on, come in and talk."

Guo Peng held Mi Zhu's hand, pulled Mi Zhu and walked inside, Mi Zhu was a little uneasy by Guo Peng's enthusiasm, trembling followed Guo Peng into the living room, sat down tremblingly, and watched the people come to pour wine tremblingly.

"Zizhong came from afar, let's have a drink first!"

Guo Peng raised the wine glass, Mi Zhu hurriedly raised the wine glass, and the two drank it together.

After drinking the wine, Guo Peng looked at Mi Zhu with an uncomfortable face, and said with a smile: "My mansion is very simple, and it is not a place to carve dragons and draw phoenixes, why should Zizhong be uneasy?" ”

"Villain...... No, Guo Lang, the villain is not uneasy. ”

"You still say you're not upset?"

Guo Peng looked at him with a smile. He said, "I know, what worries you is that you don't know why I came to you to cooperate with me in selling livestock, right?" ”

Mi Zhu saw that Guo Peng was straight to the point, so he nodded very simply.

"The villain and Guo Lang have never known each other in their lives, and they have no relationship before, why did Guo Lang choose my Mi clan instead of others?"

"Since you asked so simply, I also answered simply, the reason why I chose your Mi family is very simple, because you are pure businessmen, there are no complicated relationships, no one in the family is an official, and there is no background in the court."

Mi Zhu didn't expect Guo Peng to be so honest that he could even say such things.