Chapter 491: The Mi Family's Predicament, Intermarriage with Su Xuan? (Part 1!)

Afterwards, Zhuge Xuan and even Zhuge Liang naturally learned about some of the Merit Pavilion's matters.

In fact, for a genius child like Zhuge Liang, Su Xuan even had a special cultivation fund and plan.

Giving him some divine techniques and resources in advance to cultivate Zhuge Liang from a young age.

Along with him, Zhuge Jun also benefited from Zhuge Liang's light this time and received a secondary cultivation plan.

Afterwards, they were arranged into Jiangling Academy, in the same class as Pang Tong, and began their learning journey.

Xuzhou, Mi Family,

"Big Brother! This Tao Qian is getting more and more excessive! He actually wants to have Tao Shang intermarry with our little sister; is that purely for intermarriage?"

"That is clearly wanting to take the opportunity to completely annex our Mi family and occupy all our wealth, so we absolutely cannot agree to him!"

Mi Fang said angrily to his elder brother, Mi Zhu.

"Alas!"

Mi Zhu sighed with a frown: "How could I not understand this?"

"But what can we do?"

"Don't look at our Mi family as the richest in Xuzhou and a famous great merchant in the world; living in troubled times, our family is nothing but a piece of fat meat in the eyes of these warlords!"

"We have no power to resist at all."

This is the sadness of a merchant family.

Over the years, they hadn't thought about changing this and becoming a true gentry family.

But who knows the difficulty of this?

In itself, it is extremely difficult for a merchant to become a gentry family;

Plus, they are fat sheep in the eyes of many gentry officials; how could they let them fly away just like that?

This difficulty is even greater.

Having one more gentry family means one more family to share the cake; too many people don't want their Mi family to become a gentry family.

A Mi family that is like a fat sheep is a good Mi family in their eyes!

Mi Fang said angrily: "Are we just going to agree like this? I don't care what you think, anyway, I absolutely do not agree to this! At worst, we'll fight to the death!"

Mi Zhu shook his head helplessly: "If we really fight hard, we might die, but the net probably won't break; we only have money, but no real power or troops."

Relying only on the retainers and guards in the family?

They couldn't win against a regular army at all.

Tao Qian is not a simple character either.

If things were really that simple, he wouldn't be worrying here now.

Unless it's a last resort, he doesn't want to use such a fight-to-the-death method.

"However, agreeing to the intermarriage won't work either, otherwise, we will really be annexed by his Tao family!"

"So, for now, we can only delay and prevaricate, give more benefits to Tao Qian, stabilize him for the time being, appease him, and then make plans!"

Mi Zhu added before Mi Fang could speak angrily again.

Mi Fang's anger subsided a little, but he was still unwilling: "I am not willing to just hand over more benefits to that old thief Tao Qian;"

"Instead of giving it to him for nothing, Big Brother, we might as well do like the Zhen family in Jizhou and intermarry with the Jingzhou Governor Su Xuan; at worst, we will just give most of our family wealth to Su Xuan!"

"In this way, not only will we get a brother-in-law with power and influence and a promising future, but with Su Xuan's help, we might be able to make our Mi family's business even bigger and better;"

"Maybe even, Big Brother, you and I could get an official position and become gentry officials from our awkward situation as merchants. What do you think, Big Brother?"

"Hmm?"

Mi Zhu frowned and looked at Mi Fang: "Second brother! You are not right! This doesn't sound like something you would say or an idea you would come up with; tell me! Has someone been in contact with you recently? Who told you this?"

In fact, Mi Zhu himself was moved at this moment.

If they could really intermarry with Su Xuan, that would be too good.

Who doesn't know that the Zhen family in Jizhou relied on intermarrying with Su Xuan, and now not only have they advanced further in business, but they have also gained a lot in the officialdom.

They have successfully transformed from a merchant family into a gentry-cum-merchant family.

Now, who in the world dares to covet their Zhen family or look down on them?

"That's right!"

Mi Fang nodded affirmatively: "Recently, I have been in contact with the person in charge of the Su Chamber of Commerce here in Xuzhou, and he vaguely revealed this intention. Naturally, I was moved, but this matter still needs to be discussed with you, Big Brother, so I haven't agreed directly yet, and that's why I came back to find you, right?"

Who would have thought that he would just happen to run into the matter of that old thing Tao Qian wanting his little sister to marry his useless son, Tao Shang; Mi Fang was almost exploding with anger.

Compared to Su Xuan, Tao Qian's son, Tao Shang, is a piece of iron trash, and the two are simply incomparable.

Mi Zhu was pleasantly surprised: "Are you sure the other party brought up the intermarriage first? And not you?"

"Also, is the object of the intermarriage really General Su Xuan?"

If this is true, then for their Mi family, it is simply a huge surprise!

He still regrets not actively sticking to Su Xuan when he first rose to power.

"That's natural!"

Mi Fang nodded affirmatively: "I wouldn't fool you on such a matter, Big Brother!"

"It was indeed the other party who first revealed this intention!"

"So, do you agree, Big Brother?"

Facing Mi Fang's expectant eyes, Mi Zhu nodded affirmatively: "Naturally! Compared to Tao Qian, the benefits of intermarrying with the Jingzhou Governor are too many! I have no reason to refuse;"

"Moreover, as long as we intermarry with the Jingzhou Governor, even if we don't move our business and assets to Jingzhou, we shouldn't have to worry about Tao Qian's threat in the short term!"

"With the Governor's prestige, after knowing we have intermarried with him, Tao Qian will probably no longer dare to target or deal with us."

"Of course, if we really succeed in intermarrying, for the sake of safety, and to satisfy the Governor, we had better follow his arrangements, at least move most of our assets and business to Jingzhou, and give the Governor the greatest support;"

"Since we have chosen to bet, we must go all in; we cannot have any hesitation."

"Hmm~" ===== CHAPTER 493 =====