Zhen Yi had previously rejected Yuan Shao's marriage proposal for his second son Yuan Xi.
To be honest, among Yuan Shao's three sons, Yuan Xi is considered the better one, but he is also the least favored. However, Zhen Yi's refusal to marry was not just because of this, but because she felt that the Zhao Kingdom was destined not to last long.
Once the Zhao Kingdom is destroyed, if the Zhen family is related by marriage to the Yuan family, they will be implicated by the Yuan family, so Zhen Yi will reject Yuan Xi's marriage proposal.
Because of this matter, Zhen Yi was worried for a long time, fearing that Yuan Shao would directly send troops to raid his Zhen family. After all, what he refused was the Yuan family's overtures.
Although the Wuji Zhen family, together with the Yanmen Qin family, the Donghai Mi family, the Chengdu Wu family, and the Hedong Wei family, are known as the five major business families of the Han Dynasty, their background as a merchant is a big stain and is despised by today's orthodox mainstream public opinion.
You must know that even the Qin family was suppressed by mainstream families for a long time because of their status as businessmen. It was not until Qin Wen served as the governor of Yanmen that he defeated the Xiongnu and saved Yanmen Pass. With this credit, he was able to get rid of being suppressed by mainstream families.
Despite discrimination, he successfully broke into the orthodox official circles.
In addition to the Qin family, the four families of Zhen Mi, Wu and Wei, in order to seek family transformation, naturally asked their grandfather to sue their grandmother, and tried their best to join the mainstream of orthodoxy and be accepted into the officialdom by the world's famous families.
Among the four major families, the Mi family has the most cruel methods, the Wu family has the best luck, the Wei family has the most accurate vision, and the Zhen family has the worst luck.
In order to transform the family, Mi Zhu, the head of the Mi family, directly abandoned the century-old foundation of the Mi family in Xuzhou and took refuge with Qin Hao, who took office as the governor of Nanyang. This required great courage.
Such a huge sacrifice has naturally received its due reward.
Nowadays, brothers Mi Zhu and Mi Yuan are both officials at the prefecture level. The fact that the Mi family, who was born as a businessman, has reached this stage can be said to be the envy of all businessmen in the world.
The Wu family was not bad either. Wu Yi fully supported Liu Yan in taking over Yizhou, and after Liu Yan's death, he unswervingly supported Liu Yu.
Although the power that Liu Yan left to Liu Yu was constantly usurped by Liu Ji, the Wu family received more and more attention from Liu Yu and was reused. Today, the Wu family seems to be the first family in Yizhou.
Although the Hedong Wei family did not completely fall to any one force, it became more powerful and spread everywhere.
Wei Hong, the head of the Chenliu branch of the Wei family, greatly supported Cao Cao's army in his decline, while Wei Qing, a descendant of the Wei family in Youzhou, became the general of the Northern Han Dynasty.
After Qin Hao occupied Sizhou, the Wei family also spent huge sums of money to strongly support Qin Hao, so they also received courtesy from Qin Hao, and the children of the Wei family were able to serve as officials in the Qin State.
There were people from the Wei family in the officialdom of the three kingdoms of Qin, Wei, and Yan, and they were able to get along well in the officialdom of the three kingdoms, which was quite impressive.
Of course, among the five major business families of the Han Dynasty, the Qin family was the most outstanding. Not only did they successfully join the ranks of princes, but they also produced two princes of Qin and Jin.
Among the five major families, the worst-off is naturally the Zhen family. Of course, this is the result of comparison with the four families of Qin, Mi, Wu and Wei.
Zhen Yi chose to bet on Yuan Shao, a potential stock at the time, but there were too many families betting on Yuan Shao, and the Zhen family simply couldn't be ranked.
The Zhen family had nothing but money, so they could only throw money at it in order to gain Yuan Shao's attention.
But even though Zhen Yi spent all her family's financial resources to support Yuan Shao, she still failed to get Yuan Shao's attention. After serving as an official for several years until the fall of the Zhao Kingdom, Zhen Yi did not reach the first-level position of prefect.
Yuan Shao just regarded the Zhen family as a money pot, beckoning him when he needed it, and kicking him away when he didn't. In his heart, he could not see Zhen Yi, who was a businessman, let alone marrying the Zhen family.
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Yuan Shaohui chose to marry the Zhen family, but he was forced by Qin Hao. He wanted the financial resources of the Zhen family to alleviate the financial crisis, so he let Yuan Xi, the most unpopular person, marry the daughter of the Zhen family.
If this were any other time, Zhen Yi would naturally be eager to marry the Yuan family, but now that the Zhao Kingdom is about to be destroyed, it would be courting death to have a relationship with the Yuan family.
Therefore, Zhen Yi rejected Yuan Shao's marriage, but he also knew that Yuan Shao was eyeing his family wealth.
Yuan Shao would not be good at resting until he achieved his goal, so Zhen Yi took the initiative to donate most of his family wealth in order to break up the wealth and eliminate the disaster.
Seeing that Zhen Yi was so understanding, Yuan Shao took the initiative to donate his family wealth, so he naturally had no trouble for Zhen Yi and the Zhen family.
As for the rejection of the proposal, Yuan Shao didn't care. After all, he didn't want to marry the Zhen family, who was a businessman.
Zhen Yi refused to marry the Yuan family just to protect herself, but she did not expect that Zhao Guoguo would move to Beiyuan so quickly, and the Zhen family would actually have the opportunity to marry the King of Qin.
At this time, Zhen Yi finally realized how correct and wise her decision to refuse marriage with the Yuan family was.
Just imagine, if daughter Zhen Mi was engaged to Yuan Xi, even if the two had not yet consummated their marriage, and even if Yuan Xi had died in battle, it would still be impossible for Zhen Mi to marry the King of Qin on behalf of the Hebei family.
Zhen Mi, who is known as the 'doctor in the boudoir', is very well-educated and intelligent despite her young age. She does not dislike family marriages, not to mention that the marriage partner is a first-class handsome man.
"Brother Hao, I really didn't expect that I would marry you."
A trace of recollection flashed across Zhen Mi's beautiful face, and her face gradually turned slightly red. She remembered her first encounter with Qin Hao.
In fact, Zhen Mi had met Qin Hao as early as eleven years ago, but she was only a five-year-old girl at that time, and Qin Hao was still a thirteen-year-old boy.
Master Qin Hao and his apprentice traveled to Jizhou and passed through Wuji County. They happened to encounter Zhen Yi, the head of the Zhen family, who had a disease, so Gui Guzi took action and gave Zhen Yi a brief diagnosis and treatment.
Although Guigu's group is knowledgeable in hundreds of schools of thought, their manpower is limited after all, and it is impossible to learn everything thoroughly. Guiguzi is not proficient in medicine, so naturally he cannot save Zhen Yi, who is terminally ill.
Although Gui Guzi had a way to save Zhen Yi, Zhen Yi was just the head of the small Zhen family, and it was not worth Gui Guzi's efforts to save her. So when he saw that he could not save Zhen Yi personally, Gui Guzi was prepared to not care about Zhen Yi's life or death.
When little Zhen Mi saw that her father was about to die, she cried so hard that Qin Hao felt compassion for her, so he begged Gui Guzi to save Zhen Yi.
Although Gui Guzi didn't care about Zhen Yi's life or death, he had to give face to his beloved disciple, so he wrote to Hua Tuo and asked Hua Tuo to come and save Zhen Yi.
After Hua Tuo arrived in Wuji County, he not only rescued Zhen Yi, but also rescued Zhen Yi's eldest son Zhen Yu, who had died young.
It was under Hua Tuo's treatment that Zhen Yi, who was supposed to die of illness in 186 at the age of 30, has lived well until now and gave birth to the sixth daughter of the Zhen family, Zhen Huan.
Zhen Huan, who was implanted into the Zhen family after Baimeika was born, is only ten years old now. If Zhen Huan wasn't too young, Zhen Yi would never mind marrying both of her daughters to Qin Hao.