Chapter 502 (1/2)

Chapter 502

It was a few days after Liu Mang left Lady Cai’s place He hadMi Zhu was directed to Jingzhou while Wei Yan went back to Yiyang to co asked as he had not seen Mi Zhu before All he kneas Mi Zhu’s history and his ability to hness!” Mi Zhu said respectfully as he lowered his head At the sa was only about twenty three years old while Liu Bei and Cao Cao were over forty Tao Qian that Mi Zhu would have been over sixty by now and Liu Biao was over fifty In co He was the youngest a Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang

However, it was the younger ones that had potential Mi Zhu knew this because the younger ones would have er days Age was the reason Mi Zhu abandoned Tao Qian in favor of Liu Bei Naturally, he was happy that he was now serving so to see what he was like

“This cohed at the way Mi Zhu addressed himself If someone like Mi Zhu was called a commoner, ould the actual coet up You are not a co Are you still not going to get up?” Liu Mang said respectfully as he knew that reatest reas respect Liu Mang also did not care about their status as merchants sincealso stepped forward to help Mi Zhu up

Mi Zhu felt relieved to hear Liu Mang’s words Liu Mang seeood te Liu Mang his Lord to build a relationshi+p

“I hope you do not bla said

“I won’t” Mi Zhu shook his head Before this, hefor this but not after he had seen Liu Bei’s true colors Besides that, it was also ood” Liu Mang s for Liu Bei but Liu Mang was able to give him a title and position All he needed to do was paperwork

“Zizhong To zhou because there is an i initially wanted Mi Zhu to reunite with Mi Fang and Lady Mi to further obtain his loyalty but Mi Zhu’s expertise was urgently needed at Jingzhou

“An important job?” Mi Zhu’s eyes shone Rather than the importance of his job, he wascould he make his position stable “Milord Please instruct me!” Mi Zhu knelt and cupped his fist

“This is an extre must handle this carefully If youwarned He illing to give Mi Zhu title and position but this was not so then continued “The provisions in Jingzhou will be start being delivered to Yangzhou in a few days Zizhong, you will be in charge of the negotiations with Jingzhou to ensure that these provisions reach Yangzhou safely You zhou!” These two tasks were equally important but the second task was much harder to accomplish While Lady Cai and Kuai Yue could help theht not move unless they see benefits

“These are the conditions we can offer” Liu Mang said and took out a paper He knew businesses cannot be done without a foundation so he had to show soood faith

Mi Zhu read the paper and sawan official, schooling, and titles He could not help but look back at Liu Mang as sitting in his chair

Mi Zhu took a deep breath If all of these were implemented, the world would not be controlled by the nobles alone anymore The merchants would also have a share

“Milord Are you i all this?” Mi Zhu asked in disbelief

“Can you not understand what is written?” Liu Mang asked back

“If that is the case, I, Mi Zhu, will prozhou will never be short of enuine, at least half of all the zhou to be short of ” Liu Mang nodded He had absolute confidence in Mi Zhu

Kuai Yue left the governor’s building with a s uncoreeted Kuai Yue the h this horse keeper was here, he was not sent to keep an eye on Kuai Yue The Kuai Fa relationshi+p thanks to Kuai Yue’s son This was a fact that could be seen by all

“Tell His Highness that we already obtained the provisions!” Kuai Yue said happily An official that graduated fro provisions to Yangzhou with such eloquence that he garnered the praise of the audience Since he belonged to Pang Degong’s faction, it was essentially saying that Liu Mang had obtained Pang Degong’s support

This happened Liu Biao andmilitary matters This hall was seldoer e in the hich hy everyone gathered

“Milord! The war at Jiangxia is beco repeatedly We have lost over a thousand e and General Wen Pin are avoiding confrontations” One official reported as he cupped his fist

“The Jiangdong Ar repeatedly?” Liu Biao frowned Sun Ce was his biggest enemy If it had been any other warlords such as Cao Cao or Liu Bei, Liu Biao would be spared as killing him would make people spread bad rumors However, Liu Biao had killed Sun Ce’s father If Sun Ce were to wipe out his whole fa

Sun Ce had been attacking repeatedly thanks to the Liu Mang’s Arold for Sun Quan, Sun Ce ended up extorting twenty thousand gold This money was used to build more shi+ps and also as a reward to the soldiers

With the ht hard enough to surprise even Zhuge Liang He lost about a thousand soldiers

“What of Xiakou?” Cai Mao asked They have already lost kou and Wuchang belonged to the enezhou now only had control of places like Chibi and Xiakou If they were to lose Xiakou as well, they would lose Jiangxia

“Xiakou is still safe thanks to Military Advisor Zhuge h we lost a thousandwith three shi+ps” An official replied

Hearing this, Cai Mao sighed with relief As long as they still had Xiakou, Jingzhou would be safe The rest was no longer Cai Mao’s problem

“General Wen Pin have also requested for ain?” Cai Mao was the person in charge of handing out provisions in Jingzhou He felt the pain of losing provisions even though those provisions belonged to Liu Biao

“Didn’t we just send them provisions? They have already used it all?” Cai Mao asked He had send theh to last a year but the provisions were used up quicker than he expected

“In the letter, General Wen Pin explained that the continuous fighting for Xiakou caused the soldiers to becoiven three meals a day instead of two

Cai Mao wanted to object Having an extra meal would not help with their exhaustion However, Liu Biao approved of this before Cai Mao could raise his objections

Cai Mao did not say anythingas Jingzhou was safe fro On top of that, they should have a bumper harvest that year

“Milord! The dam broke and thousands of mu worth of farmland is flooded!” One official spoke up

“The dam broke?” Liu Biao asked with a frown These farmlands would have provided the nobles lowered their heads when they saw Liu Biao’s frown This is because they were the ones that caused it They diverted the river water to their own homes to use as artificial manpower Normally it was fine but the heavy rain and diverted water was too much for the dam

“Milord! We should immediately dispatch the troops to repair the da should also be exempted from tax for a year” Kuai Yue quickly advised

Just as Liu Biao was about to agree to Kuai Yue’s words, Kuai Liang stood up “Milord, I want to add soate the reason the dam broke Weadded as he glanced at the Jiangling nobles