"Ju Yi, what are you doing in the corner? Is there anything wrong?"

Just when Ju Yi was in pain and tangled, Yuan Shao had already arrived in front of him without realizing it, but he was unaware of it.

"Oh!" Ju Yi exclaimed in surprise, with a little panic.

Fortunately, it was night, and he stood in the dark corner of the wall where the moonlight could not shine, so no one could see his expression clearly.

After taking a deep breath and quickly calming his mind, Ju Yi said respectfully: "My lord, when I saw that my lord was in a bad mood, I did not dare to come forward to disturb me. I could only stand in an inconspicuous place to warn my lord, so as not to disturb my lord's thoughts."

"Well, thank you for your hard work in Ju Yi. I ordered the soldiers to camp in Zhen Mansion tonight and let someone buy some food in the city and not disturb the people. Go quickly." Yuan Shao nodded to Ju Yi with a calm expression and said.

"No, I will take the order!" Ju Yi bowed and then turned around and left with great strides.

However, Yuan Shao, Guo Tu and Yan Liang did not notice the moment Ju Yi turned around and left. His body hesitated slightly, his mouth slightly opened as if he had something to say, but he finally held back and took a deep breath, his cheeks were bulging. When he turned his back to Yuan Shao and the other two left, he let out a long breath and felt much more relaxed all over his body.

At this moment, Ju Yi had made up his mind. He didn't say anything, didn't even ask, and just pretended not to know anything. Anyway, the blood words in the miscellaneous room had been washed away by him, and a layer of mud was covered with the walls. The abnormal personal soldiers who had discovered before were all the direct troops he brought from Xiliang, so they could definitely trust. In this way, even if Feng Ji was still alive to ask him about this in the future, Ju Yi only had six words: "I don't know, I didn't see it." As long as he asked three questions, whether it was Feng Ji, Yuan Xi, or Yuan Shao, without real evidence and no one could prove it, who could do what Ju Yi would do?

After making this decision, Ju Yi suddenly realized that pretending to be deaf and dumb, pretending to know nothing, was the only way to clear his suspicion. On the contrary, if he took the initiative to report to Yuan Shao about the content of Feng Ji's blood words, he would put himself in a desperate situation, and pretending to be deaf and dumb could allow him to escape from this quagmire.

"Oh!" After getting such a result, Ju Yi stood outside the backyard gate and looked at Yuan Shao under the lights hundreds of steps outside. He sighed heavily.

Yuan Shao's suspicion made Ju Yi dare not tell the truth, and Li Li's flawless plan made Ju Yi feel troubled. Even if he wanted to be loyal to Yuan Shao, it would not work. Because the cost of loyalty was too high, he needed to bet on his own wealth and life. Even the ants survived in troubled times, let alone him, General Ju Yi of Jizhou.

It was from this moment that there was a complete gap between Ju Yi and Yuan Shao, and he could no longer return to the previous relationship of trust in the ministers.

It was precisely because Ju Yi happened to find the miscellaneous room and found the blood words Feng Ji left on the ground, and his unyielding deliberate concealment, which invisibly affected many things and indirectly maintained the current situation in the world. Otherwise, once Yuan Shao tried his best to kill Li Li, the situation in the world would change drastically. The influence of the general is far beyond everyone's imagination. The final result may be only one who knows, and this person is Li Li himself, because if he dies at this time, history may continue its inherent trajectory and roll forward.

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On the night of the night, the main hall of Zhen Mansion’s backyard.

In this empty lobby, the personal soldiers took down some wooden boards of the gatehouse to piece together more than a dozen cases, and then took a few cushions for Yuan Shao and his civil servants and generals to sit in the hall to discuss major events.

Sitting on the upper steps of the empty lobby, Yuan Shao looked down at such a shabby scene under the hall, and suddenly felt a breath of anger in his chest, but he had nowhere to vent. In his suffocation, Yuan Shao's face was gloomy, dark clouds were covered with anger, and his eyes were filled with anger, but he could not spread the anger on everyone in the hall. He had to endure it himself, which made him very uncomfortable.

The Zhen family was so cruel and did a great job that they moved the huge Zhen Mansion empty. They didn't even leave a complete and useful thing. Because of this, although Yuan Shao and his ten thousand personal soldiers lived in the Zhen Mansion compound, they only had a place to shelter from the wind and rain, and there were no other tools. So there were not even a few tables and stools in the lobby. The Yuan army soldiers had to tear down the door panel and temporarily put together a few tables for discussions and use by the lord and the adults.

Yuan Shao was a very handsome superior. It was the first time for him to discuss matters in the lobby such a shabby lobby. Back then, when he led his troops to the Chenliu Alliance, he was not as shabby as today. He actually took down a few door panels as tables, collected a pile of old rags and kneaded them into a ball to make futons. This was the situation of the lobby meeting.

In fact, Yuan Shao could live in the county government office or stay overnight in the houses of other wealthy families in the city, but he could not save face. Since he lived in Zhen’s mansion with great fanfare, he could not go out of Zhen’s mansion to find another place to stay. Yuan Shao could not do such a thing that was deprived of his identity and face, and he would rather pretend to be a fat man in the empty Zhen’s mansion than to lose face and find another house to stay.

In addition, it is worth mentioning that after Yuan Shao took over Jizhou, he was polite and kind. Although he could not be called a polite and kind prince who loved the people as much as his son, he was also one of the few polite princes in troubled times. Therefore, in the minds of the people of Jizhou, he was still a good-known provincial governor and was quite popular with the people. Because of this, people with aspirations in Hebei came to join him, making the Jizhou army increasingly powerful, with civil officials and military generals gathered, including wise men and celebrities and powerful generals and hermits.

In the lobby, everyone had supper and then formally discussed the matter.

Before this, Wen Chou and Ju Yi, who were responsible for searching the Zhen Mansion courtyard, had reported the search results to Yuan Shao, saying that there was no suspiciousness and no valuable clues were found.

"You have seen the current situation of the Zhen Mansion. The huge Zhen Mansion mansion was moved empty, and thousands of people from the Zhen family were empty. Let's talk about it, what should we do now?" Yuan Shao narrowed his eyes slightly and said in a deep voice with a gloomy face.

Yuan Shao's voice was not loud, but it was shaking and echoing in the empty lobby, and it clearly reached everyone's ears in the hall word by word.

However, until the echo disappeared, everyone in the hall looked down and thoughtful, and no one answered.

In the hall, Guo Tu and Ju Yi sat opposite each other, at the head of the crowd, two generals Wen Chou and Yan Liang were also sitting there, followed by more than ten generals of the army.

The scene of these dozen people discussing the matter is a relatively rare small-scale discussion among the Jizhou army, which is also the reason why Yuan Shao made a temporary decision to come to the Wuji Zhen family. At present, the Jizhou army is on its way back to Yecheng, and many strategists and generals are following the army to retreat, otherwise the lobby meeting would not be the size of hundreds of people.

"Cough!" Seeing that everyone was not whispering, Guo Tu, who was sitting on the left, coughed lightly, cleared his throat, and said respectfully: "Report to lord. The two generals Wen Chou and Ju Yi had searched the Zhen Mansion completely, but did not find any suspicious points. It can be seen that the relocation of the Zhen family was not a hasty move, but was prepared and moved away calmly. It is inferred that when the second young master brought troops to urge grain two days ago, the Zhen family was already moving, but the Zhen family covered up very well, so that the second young master, General Ju Yi and others did not notice at all. Then, the second young master sent General Ju Yi to return to the military camp to report to the lord. After Ju Yi left, the Zhen family attacked the second young master and Feng Ji and others. After succeeding, they quickly evacuated Wuji City. They disappeared.

If the subordinates make the inferences correctly, the two young masters and Feng Ji and more than a thousand soldiers were already held hostage by the Zhen family's entourage and acted as hostages to prevent the lord from chasing them along the way after learning about this. In addition, the subordinates estimated that all the Zhen family would escape from the city for no more than three days, and it is very likely that they escaped yesterday. The most critical point now is, which princes the Zhen family would go to and where the family moved to. If the Zhen family depended on Gongsun Zan, they would naturally go to the northeast; if they depended on Cao Cao in Yanzhou, or Jingzhou, Jiangnan area and other prefectures and counties, then the Zhen family should still be in Jizhou and had not yet left Jizhou."

Yuan Shao nodded slightly, frowned, and asked with thought, "In Yuanze's opinion, how should we deal with the betrayal of the Zhen family now?"

"What's the difficulty!" Without waiting for Guo Tu to answer, Yan Liang, who was sitting behind Guo Tu, suddenly stood up and said in a loud voice: "The thieves in the Zhen family dared to betray the lord and surrender to other princes. How can we allow him to leave easily? We should lead the troops to chase him. We will swear to kill him in Jizhou! In addition, the lord should also order the officials of each county to confiscate the Zhen family's shops, arrest the Zhen family members, and make a warning to others!"

"No!" Before Yan Liang finished speaking, Guo Tu immediately spoke up. Then he ignored Yan Liang's angry eyes and stood up and said respectfully to Yuan Shao: "Lord, what General Yan Liang said at first sounds reasonable. The Zhen family is in the forefront, and it is not wrong to order the chasing. However, we don't know where the Zhen family is fleeing and have no target. How can we lead the troops to chase and kill them? We can't order the entire county and county of Jizhou to search. If this is true, then the entire Jizhou area will inevitably be in chaos, everyone will be in danger, and the county will be in chaos. This is one of them.

Secondly, although the Zhen family shops are all over the counties and counties of Jizhou, the shops that are truly named Zhen family shops are only valuable items such as gold, silver and jewelry and silk, while other shops do not have Zhen family sizes. In this way, even if the lord wants to search the Zhen family shops, he can only pay the shops with the Zhen family sizes without the Zhen family sizes, but other shops cannot be moved easily. Moreover, since the Zhen family is ready, it is believed that all the shops have been closed or transferred, changed their names, or transferred all the money. In this way, even if the Zhen family shops are searched, there will be no great gains. Instead, other merchants in Jizhou will be in danger and secretly transfer their money to other prefectures and counties, so as not to one day follow the footsteps of the Zhen family.

Third, the Zhen family has been involved in business roads for hundreds of years, and has contacts with all major families, powerful people and gentry in Jizhou. The connections and relationships are mixed. It is hard to say that the Zhen family shop does not have them and has interests connected. Once the lord attacks the Zhen family shop, it will affect the interests of many officials and clans who secretly join forces with the Zhen family to do business. It can be said that they will affect the whole body. Perhaps they dare not come forward to resist the lord's order to investigate the store, but they will definitely have resentment towards the lord, thus laying the root of disaster and leaving endless disasters.

Fourthly, today the princes are in vain, and many counties are often fought over and over by the princes and changed hands repeatedly. If the lord today does not receive support from the Zhen family, he will start a large-scale murder of the Zhen family shops and wait for our Jizhou counties to fall into the hands of other princes in the future, then will our Jizhou merchants be killed by other princes? If they kill each other, who else in the world dares to engage in business?

Therefore, this case cannot be opened, and the lord cannot be the first person to kill a merchant family, otherwise he will be criticized and become enemies with merchants all over the world. In addition, the second prince, Feng Ji and others are also hostages in the hands of the Zhen family. If the lord explicitly ordered the pursuit, they are afraid that their lives will not be guaranteed.

Therefore, the subordinates believe that what General Yan Liang said was only for a moment of pleasure, but he left endless troubles and was definitely not advisable. Please make clear decisions!”

"Yeah." After Guo Tu finished speaking, Yuan Shao nodded and accepted the advice, raised his hand to signal Yan Liang to sit down and not to say anything more.

Indeed, Guo Tu's words touched Yuan Shao a lot, because he was able to occupy Jizhou without bloodshed, which was the result of the joint support of the Jizhou family and many merchants. Because of this, when he took over the governor of Jizhou, he issued an edict, and no county dared to be separatist and independent, and did not respect orders. At the same time, the reason why Jizhou was able to become the richest prefecture among the states in the world was because there were many merchants in Jizhou and ran between the Han prefectures all year round. Every day, the goods from Jizhou counties and counties continued to come in and out, paying a considerable amount of customs clearance taxes for the entire Jizhou treasury.

Therefore, Guo Tu's advice really touched Yuan Shao's heart, allowing him to gradually emerge from the anger of the Zhen family's betrayal, and thus he looked at this sudden incident rationally and comprehensively. Before this, what he thought was exactly the same as what Yan Liang said, and even wanted to lead troops to chase the Zhen family's caravan and kill the entire Zhen family's treacherous clan. However, Guo Tu's words made him suddenly alert and clearly realized that the Zhen family could become a wealthy businessman and wealthy businessman in the world, and it would be impossible for the family to accomplish things by secretly. He must have a close interest entanglement with the merchants and official clans of Jizhou and even the Han Dynasty, otherwise it would be difficult for the Zhen family to grow step by step to this level.

After thinking for a long time, Yuan Shao finally made a decision. He stood up and said in a deep voice: "I ordered the county magistrates of Zhongshan, Hejian, Zhuo County, Changshan County, Zhao County and other five counties to strictly guard the city passes, strictly investigate the passing caravans and pedestrians, post Zhen family notices, arrest the Zhen clan and the Zhen family caravan! In addition, he secretly ordered the general of the chariot and cavalry to conduct detailed investigations on the whereabouts of the Zhen clan and the whereabouts of the Zhen clan. Once verified, he would rob and kill them immediately; secretly investigate all Zhen shops in Jizhou, find out the details, and wait until the time is ripe, and then punish them!"

With Yuan Shao's order, the opinions on handling the relocation of the Zhen clan were settled. During the entire discussion, Ju Yi, who was sitting at the top of the right, always sat upright without saying a word, as if he was outside the matter and squinted his eyes to watch.

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