Chapter 98 Zhen's recent situation
The time when Lu Ren solved the incident with Zhou Yu and left Chaisang was in September of the eighth year of Jian'an, and it was almost October when he took over the Zhen clan and arrived in Yizhou. That is to say, at the beginning of the first month of the ninth year of Jian'an, the Zhen clan has been here in the small city of Yizhou for more than two months.
Two months is not a long time, but it is not too short. And for a small city in Yizhou with a population of just over 20,000 now, two months is enough time for the people of the Zhen clan to basically understand the situation of such a small city.
To be honest, at the beginning, the Zhen clan did not have any high expectations, and the original plan was just to honestly cultivate the land in this strange land, and thrive in a peaceful and peaceful life, so that their clan could prosper again. Of course, this is also a common concept held by people living in the agrarian civilization on the Chinese continent.
But the question is, where will Lu Ren let the Zhen clan farm with peace of mind? Lu Ren spent a lot of effort to get the Zhen clan to come to Yizhou, is it just to let them come to Yizhou to farm? To put it mildly, there is a shortage of population here in the small city of Yizhou, but will there be a shortage of hundreds of people from your Zhen clan who are farming? If you just want to find more people to farm, wouldn't it be the same to recruit hundreds of displaced people to farm?
Therefore, after the Zhen clan initially settled down in the small town of Yizhou, Lu Ren asked Shirley to teach Zhen Mi how to make glass according to the original plan...... But only seventy percent was taught, and leaving these thirty percent naturally had Lu Ren's own intentions, and besides, some things should also be explored by the people of the Zhen clan themselves. Anyway, there are seventy percent, and I believe that it should be enough for the people of the Zhen clan to be used for a long time.
And things in the world are often like this, if you really have the means to make a fortune in your hands, how many people will not do it? What's more, it's the Zhen clan, a big clan that was once rich? Therefore, after getting the production method of glass products, and after the first batch of glass products were made, the entire Zhen clan was instantly enthusiastic.
In fact, at this time, the production was not the colorless transparent glass that Lu Ren wanted, and to make colorless transparent glass or other colored glass, a certain amount of chemical reaction agents such as iron oxide needed to be added to the production process. But it's not a big deal. The Zhen clan itself is good at the smelting process, and it is familiar with adding chemical reagents to smelting products...... Although they don't know the word. Therefore, Lu Ren believes that as long as they have the heart to do it, there will always be a time when they can do it.
The first batch of glass products is actually nothing special, it is nothing more than some flat glass, and you can't let the Zhen clan who has just started to make various forms of glass objects, right? But then again, what Lu Ren needs now is these ordinary flat glasses.
This first batch of flat glass, after both sides were polite, was purchased by Lu Ren at a very cheap price, and then made into the first batch of glass windows in Yizhou Town. It is said that glass is the most extensive, the most common, and at the same time the most suitable use. Isn't it just made of glass windows to achieve good lighting?
And this first batch of glass windows, Lu Ren did not install them in any of his houses, but installed them in Zheng Xuan Zheng's old man, and its good lighting was naturally praised by Mr. Zheng, who likes to read. However, when I first saw the glass, it was because Mr. Zheng mistakenly thought that the glass was rare and expensive, so he almost refused. For this reason, it took Lu Renke a lot of words to make Old Man Zheng reluctantly accept it.
Of course, Lu Ren's "putting others before himself" actually has his own insidious purpose. Because the news of Old Man Zheng's seclusion to Yizhou had been transmitted back to Wu County under Lu Ren's deliberate arrangement, by this time, some of Old Man Zheng's clansmen and disciples had already followed the ships of the Lu clan of Wu County to Yizhou. And these people were all literate people in those years, in other words, a group of people with public opinion influence. And such a group of people. What kind of effect will it cause when you see the glass window here of Mr. Zheng? In fact, to put it simply, Mr. Zheng unknowingly helped Lu Ren advertise the glass products here......
Originally, there should be no problem with the development of things, but there was a small problem some time ago. The reason for the incident was that Lu Ren originally wanted to take the form of a joint venture with the Zhen clan to produce and sell glass products, but based on the current situation of Yizhou Xiaocheng and the Zhen clan. After several considerations, Lu Ren and Shirley decided to temporarily carry out the related matters of glass products in the form of commissioned production, that is, Lu Ren placed an order here to the Zhen clan, and Lu Ren provided the matters such as plant and raw materials. The Zhen clan only needs to provide manpower for production here.
It should be said that this is a planned production method that is currently more suitable for the current situation of the small city of Yizhou, and Lu Ren didn't care about anything, but he didn't expect that his approach caused panic among some people with brains in the Zhen clan.
And this thing. It's a little funny to say it in detail. Because the Zhen clan fled to Yizhou, if they didn't get the method of making glass from Lu Ren's hands, a group of people would be able to cultivate the land with peace of mind. But now that he has obtained such a thing that can obviously make money, Lu Ren seems to have restrictions and refuses to let go, which immediately makes the Zhen people who originally hoped to use glass products to make a lot of money and revitalize the clan.
I had the heart to go to Lu Ren to discuss, but no one had the courage to do so. To put it mildly, Lu Ren is the emperor of the soil here in Yizhou, if he really provokes Lu Ren, Lu Ren can destroy the Zhen clan at will, so that kind of stupid thing, the Zhen family will not do.
Next, the people in the Zhen clan began to speculate about why Lu Ren refused to let go. And in the chaotic discussion, I don't know who poked out such a sentence: "People don't destroy the heavens and the earth for themselves, glass products are obviously things that can make a lot of profits, and Lu Servant Archer has a secret recipe for making it in his hand, and he can make it by recruiting some craftsmen to make a profit, so why should he cheapen our Zhen clan?" Don't forget, our clan and Lu Servant are actually not related. ”
As soon as this head is opened, the brains of a group of people who are discussing things will be activated. If you think about it, don't you? Lu Ren had some contacts with the Zhen clan earlier, but at that time, Lu Ren could not be said to be doing business with the Zhen clan, but on behalf of Cao Cao to buy the copper, iron and metal of the Zhen clan, in other words, Lu Ren himself actually had no friendship with the Zhen clan. Now that the Zhen clan, which can no longer stay in Zhongshan, is brought to Yizhou to settle down, in the eyes of many people, it is already a matter of taking great care of the Zhen clan. If the Zhen clan still wants this and that, isn't that too much?
At this time, these people of the Zhen clan inevitably compared their own clan with the Mi clan who were also in the small city of Yizhou. Really speaking, although the original Mi clan was rich, they could only be regarded as the landlord, otherwise Mi Zhu would not have tried his best to seek a career, but the Zhen clan was different, they were a famous family with a rank of two thousand stones. Therefore, although the friendship between the two families was not bad at the beginning, in fact, in the hearts of many people in the Zhen clan, they somewhat looked down on the Mi family, the rich man.
It's just that things have changed, and this is no longer the time it used to be. At this time, the Zhen clan went to compare with the Mi clan, so wasn't it looking for a draw? In comparison, what kind of life is the Mi clan fought, and what kind of life is your Zhen clan fed?
So some people are not convinced, saying that why can a rich man like Mi still live so well after Mi Zhu is down? Why does Lu Ren care so much about this kind of rich man? This time, I don't know who coldly poked out a sentence: "What's the use of saying this?" Why don't you want to think about how many years of friendship there is between the Lu family and the Mi family? When Lu Servant Shot was exiled to Xuzhou before he left the office, how much did Mi Zhu care for Lu Servant? Even at that time, Mi Zhu deliberately recruited the land servant who was still white. And now, why don't you want to think about who Miss Mi is shot by Lu Servant? ”
As soon as these words came out, everyone present fell silent. Yes, the current Mi Zhen is Lu Ren's side wife, that is to say, the Lu family and the Mi clan are in-laws, and it is natural for Lu Ren to take more care of the Mi clan, so what are you angry about the Zhen clan? Who the hell are you sisters from Lu Ren? Why should Lu Ren take care of your Zhen clan like he took care of the Mi clan?
Then, everyone's eyes focused on the two people. The first one is the old lady of the Zhen family, because everyone remembered how the old lady of the Zhen family insulted Lu Ren when they met Lu Ren at the beginning of Jiangxia, who dares to say that Lu Ren is treating the Zhen clan like this now, is he holding a grudge against this incident at that time? And the other person is naturally Zhen Mi...... With Mi Zhen's experience, the Zhen family naturally germinated the idea of marrying Lu Ren.
No one would find anything wrong with it, after all, in that era, relying on things like marriage to gain benefits for the clan was a common trick used by these clans, large and small. To put it mildly, the Zhen clan would have decided to accept the marriage between Yuan Xi and Zhen Mi, didn't they just want to hug Yuan Shao's thigh?
Now that Yuan Shao has fallen, the thick thighs of the Yuan family are no longer hopeless, and the Zhen clan has become the current ghost virtue, and they can't hold other thick thighs if they want to...... Don't you want to benefit your own clan when you're someone else? "The right person" is far from being as simple as the literal meaning.
In contrast, Lu Ren still has some hope here. Forget about the nonsense and gossip, and if you dare to say it, it will only make things worse. Just take the normal situation as an example, first of all, Lu Ren is lustful, while Zhen Mi is lustful; secondly, Zhen Mi stayed by Lu Ren's side for a while, and he had a very good relationship with several people around Lu Ren, and there was no problem in personal relationships; Secondly, after all, Lu Cheng is a direct descendant of the Zhen clan, so such a relationship is somewhat useful...... Although Lu Cheng has always ignored them.
So, a few of the more courageous people said this, and a silent approving silence followed...... (To be continued.) )