Cao Cao's spies soon got the exact news from Liaodong. It was indeed our King of Shu, Liu Mang, who supported the friendly army from Yangzhou thousands of miles away, and transported those weapons, armor and food to Liaodong, and our Liaodong Wang Gongsun Du acted as one of the second dealers.
As for the so-called title of King of Liaodong that Cao Cao sent to Gongsundu of Liaodong, Gongsundu also put it aside, because no matter how good the title is, it is all false, and it is not as refreshing as this gold.
This Yuan family brother is indeed a rich man. The transaction with Yangzhou has reached a quota of 2 million gold in a blink of an eye, and his Gongsun Du has also received nearly 300,000 gold in compensation.
These are all real benefits, vain gold, your old Cao is just a letter of appointment, why should I help you with my life, if I help you, there is still money. The money lost in the business will be paid by you, Cao.
However, Gongsundu of Liaodong can be regarded as a person who can be a man. Although he does business with the Yuan brothers, he does not reject Cao Cao directly, but puts Cao Cao's envoys aside and entertains them well, and even brings them to him from time to time. He attended the dinner at his mansion, but he never mentioned Cao Cao's teasing of him.
It made Cao Cao furious, and Cao Cao even listened to Guo Jia's suggestion to see if he could buy some new armor and weapons from Liaodong Wang Gongsun Du, and even the price he gave was lower than that of the Yuan brothers. After all, Cao Cao is now considered a local tyrant. The price of Cao Cao really moved Gongsun Du's heart. Unfortunately, the envoy of our King of Shu also thought of this and warned our King of Liaodong , if Cao Cao found any large-scale weapons and armor used on the battlefield on the battlefield, then he would directly cut off the sea trade with Liaodong. Mang is the supplier.
If Liu Mang canceled the trade in a fit of anger, then he, Gongsun Du, would cry to someone.
So Gongsundu didn't sell any weapons and armor to Cao Cao, which made Cao Cao's teeth itch.
The weapons sold by the Yuan family brothers with the help of the Yangzhou army actually blocked Cao Cao's several attacks, making Cao Cao's face more and more livid, and the gentry in Jizhou and Hebei also began to make small moves.
Cao Cao's army camp, where Cao Cao sat down, a general was reporting.
Listening to the reports from his subordinates, Cao Cao almost pulled out the saber in his hand.
This is already the fifth family. Some people actually transported food, grass and money from Jizhou to Youzhou in order to support the Yuan family brothers. How could Cao Cao endure it
"Damn, hate!" Cao Cao shouted angrily, "I'm going to kill them, kill them."
Cao Cao is not stupid, those people under the banner of caravans are just delivering supplies to Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang. "Come here, take all the five families and put them in jail!"
"My lord, now is not the time!" Guo Jia stood beside Cao Cao and stopped him. Guo Jia also wanted to help Cao Cao destroy these gentry, because these individuals no longer have the concept of family and country. It can even be said that if foreigners give them more, they will immediately rebel against Cao Cao, and Guo Jia is also angry. But I also know that these individuals cannot be killed now, once it is easy to do it, but one result of this is that the whole Jizhou and Cao Cao are separated from each other. At that time, there will be more people supporting the Yuan brothers.
"This can't be killed, and that can't be killed, so what!" Cao Cao was so angry that even Guo Jia didn't show a good face.
"General Zhang He, you are familiar with the terrain of Youzhou. Please also send the euphorbia soldiers out as scouts to stop all the caravans passing through Youzhou from Jizhou." Guo Jia was about to disperse Zhang He's heavy cavalry. Act as a scout to stop those Jizhou caravans.
"Yes!" Zhang Yun clasped his fists and left. His euphorbia warriors were indeed from the generation familiar with Youzhou.
"Even if Zhang Yun's euphorbia warriors can catch them?" Cao Cao said angrily. Youzhou and Jizhou have a land of thousands of miles, and there are only 5,000 euphorbia warriors. How can they be impermeable. Guo Jia's approach is nothing more than doing his best.
"It would be great if Ziyuan was still there!" Cao Cao even had the idea that it would be great if Xu You didn't die, because with Xu You suppressing those gentry in Jizhou, those gentry would also They will not be so rampant, and one of the reasons why they jumped out now is that Xu You died, they were guilty, and they were afraid that Cao Cao would ask them to settle accounts after autumn. You see, even Cao Cao's childhood like Xu You was killed by Cao Cao. Those of them who used to be right with Cao Cao still have a good end, so they might as well take the risk to find their former masters.
Guo Jia was not angry when he heard Cao Cao's words, but instead smiled, "My lord, Mr. Ziyuan will benefit from Mr. Ziyuan's life, and he will also benefit from his death."
"En!" Cao Cao looked at Guo Jia suspiciously.
Xu You and Xu Ziyuan were beheaded, so no one dared to challenge Cao Cao's dignity, and Cao Cao gradually rose from an ordinary person to a god, just like an emperor, an emperor, it's okay to be approachable once or twice , if you are always being approachable, it will naturally give everyone the illusion that the emperor is also an ordinary person, and it gradually evolved into, since the emperor is an ordinary person, why can't we do it.
And now Xu You is destroying the rhythm that made Cao Cao a god, how could Guo Jia let him go. After Xu You died, some people's reverence for Cao Cao came back. Naturally, they didn't dare to make any changes. For example, some people in Xudu, Yanzhou Zhili became more stable, and the disadvantage was that some people in Jizhou changed,
Guo Jia saw that Cao Cao was still thinking about the pros and cons, and said another sentence that completely dispelled Cao Cao's consideration, "My lord, the war in Hebei is so chaotic, and all industries are waiting to be prosperous. If you want to return to the prosperous northern granary, you need a lot of money. It's two o'clock."
Guo Jia's words moved Cao Cao a little bit.
"And now that these people have come out, we have money." Guo Jia said very indifferently. It turns out that our Guo Jia Guo Jijiu has already begun to plan for the future livelihood of Hebei. When the Yuan brothers left Jizhou and Bingzhou, they searched again. It can be said that the original northern granary has now become an extremely desolate place. If you want to restore its former glory, you must invest a lot of money in it. Cao Cao If the north is pacified, it is still necessary to send troops to the south, and a large sum of money must be invested in the army. How can there be extra money to develop Hebei
But now that these Jizhou gentry jumped out, it was different. Guo Jia's original plan was to use the money of these Jizhou gentry to develop Hebei, but he has been suffering, and there is no excuse.
But now it's okay, this excuse and this handle have been sent to Cao Cao by them, and these five Cao Cao must be liquidated after the war. After annihilating these five gentry families, and then killing chickens and monkeys to beat them, the other Jizhou gentry can only hold their noses and pay. At that time, I am afraid that I will have no money.
"Ziyuan, you are really my loyal minister." Cao Cao said to Xu You who had already been reincarnated.
Cao Cao's army began to attack the city again. Although the Yuan brothers had new weapons and armor, they were not equipped by the whole army. Cao Cao had a full 300,000 troops, and the Yuan brothers had too many places to defend.
The battle line was drawn down, and wars were raging everywhere in Youzhou.
Over there, Yuan's army used new weapons and armor to annihilate a 10,000-man team of Cao Cao. Soon Cao Cao counterattacked and wiped out a camp of Yuan's army by relying on the superiority of numbers.
"Ahem!" Guo Jia coughed uncontrollably standing in the cold wind. Cao Cao on the side was very worried.
Guo Jia looked at the cities over there. Cao Cao's 300,000 troops fought for more than a month, but he only took five cities in Youzhou, and they were all small county towns. If he really took Youzhou, how long would he have to wait? At that time, Cao Cao's army had lost 30,000 to 40,000 yuan, so it won't work if it goes on like this.
"Brothers of the Yuan family, Gongsun Du, King Liu Mang of Shu!" Guo Jia thought about these three forces in his heart.
That's right, the current Cao army is not fighting with one person at all, but with these three forces. Liu Mang in Yangzhou sells weapons and armor, and Gongsun Du sells grain and grass. With the support of these two forces, the Yuan brothers can persist to this extent.
"Feng Xiao, you'd better go back, it's windy outside!" Cao Cao stepped forward and said to Guo Jia with concern, and even took off the mink fur on his body and put it on Guo Jia's body.
"Thank you, my lord, for your concern!" Guo Jia smiled at Cao Cao, "Jia is fine."
"The centipede is dead but not stiff. I didn't expect my second son, the original brother, to be such a talent!" Cao Cao also felt emotional. Cao Cao didn't pay attention to Yuan Shao's two sons at all. , What's the use of two things that only know what's in the nest? If it weren't for Cao Cao, I'm afraid these two brothers would be able to play themselves to death.
But what Cao Cao didn't expect was that Yuan Xi, Yuan Shao's second son, who had been doing nothing for a long time, suddenly became brilliant.
It can be said that Yuan Xi is definitely a talented person who was able to fight the defense of Youzhou like this. You have to know that Yuan Xi is facing Guo Jia, the top strategist under Cao Cao's command, and others.
"If this Yuan Xi was the heir appointed by Brother Benchu, I'm afraid I, Cao Cao, would not be where I am today!" Cao Cao also smiled. Who knows that the world is impermanent, just like when Cao Cao was in the battle of Guandu, Who would have thought that Cao Cao would win.
"My lord, what did you just say?" Guo Jia suddenly grasped the information in Cao Cao's words.
"I said the world is impermanent?" Cao Cao asked suspiciously.
"Not this sentence!" Guo Jia shook his head.
"Brother Ben Chu's successor is Yuan Xi!" Cao Cao repeated.
"Yes, that's the sentence!" Guo Jia's eyes lit up.
'What's wrong? "Cao Cao asked suspiciously.
"My lord, who is the commander-in-chief of the army on the opposite side?" Guo Jia asked Cao Cao with a smile.
"The commander-in-chief of the army? Of course it is Yuan Xi." Cao Cao and this Yuan family army have been fighting for so long, so they don't know who the commander-in-chief of the army is.
"No!" Guo Jia shook his head and rejected Cao Cao's words, "This commander is not Yuan Xi."
"If it's not Yuan Xi, then who is it?"
"To be precise, this commander is a compromise between Yuan Shang and Yuan Tan." Guo Jia said to Cao Cao.
Yuan Xi's strength is the weakest among the three brothers, no wonder, Yuan Tan is Yuan Shao's eldest son, Yuan Shang is Yuan Shao's favorite youngest son, these two sons naturally account for 80% of Yuan Shao's strength That's right, and Yuan Xi can get 10% of the inheritance rights at most, which is not bad.
So now the main strength of the Yuan family army is still the troops of Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang. Yuan Xi was able to be the commander-in-chief because Yuan Shang and Yuan Tan were both dissatisfied with each other, and it was only after a compromise that Yuan Xi became the commander-in-chief.
"My lord, in my army, your words and orders must be carried out firmly, but our commander Yuan Xi is not like this." Guo Jia said to Cao Cao, "My lord still remembers the first time you forced Youzhou When?" Guo Jia reminded Cao Cao, "Obviously, the Yuan Jiajun could bite off Xu You's army in one bite and run away, exchanging the smallest price for the greatest benefit, but over there, the Yuan Jiajun suddenly lost his head General Zhang He and General Xu Rong seized the opportunity to chase Xu You out and chased Xu You out!"
"You mean that Yuan Xi's orders and deeds in the Yuan family army are different?" The Yuan family army is not monolithic at all, Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang both subconsciously regard each other as enemies, how could they be monolithic
If the Yuan Jiajun turned their fists and were truly united, then Cao Cao's Youzhou would really be impossible to take down, but now it's not necessarily so.
"What we have to do is to make Yuan Jiajun fall apart again!" Guo Jia looked at the city wall over there with a sneer.
"Where is General Xu Huang's troops!" Guo Jia asked Cao Cao next to him.
"Xu Huang is in Zhuo County!" Cao Cao pointed to the location on the map and said to Guo Jia.
"Who is the guard of Zhuo County?"
"Cen Bi!" This person is a general under Yuan Tan's command, and his strength is also about first-class. He has 10,000 elite troops and 30,000 auxiliary soldiers. He is stationed in Zhuo County for a generation. Standing in the army, it is precisely because this Cen Bi is relatively strong that Cao Cao sent Xu Huang to contain this person.
"Cen Bi!" Guo Jia thought for a long time, "Yuan Tan's men." Guo Jia said to Cao Cao, "My lord, you can issue an order for General Xu Huang to come back. Let General Xiahouba and General Xu Huang switch defenses."
"Let Zhong Quan fight Cen Bi?" Cao Cao looked at Guo Jia with wide eyes and doubts. Who is Xia Houba? That was the second son of Xia Houyuan, whose mother was the younger sister of Cao Cao's wife Ding, so he could be said to be Cao Cao's nephew.
Although he is capable, he is still young after all. It can be said that he followed Cao Cao to see the world when he came out this time.
So Cao Cao didn't give him a big official position. Lieutenant Hu Yi was actually the leader of a group of auxiliary soldiers in charge of logistics. He had a lot of troops, a total of 30,000 people, but his combat effectiveness was greatly reduced. If you encounter local elite soldiers and horses, five thousand elite soldiers will be able to defeat and annihilate them in the wild. This made Xia Houba face off against Cen Bi, hehe, isn't this a game of death.
"Although General Xiahouba has only 30,000 auxiliary soldiers, my lord, if 30,000 people defend the camp, it should be fine for ten days and half a month." Guo Jia looked at Cao Cao with a smile. He knew that Cao Cao was worried about him. This little nephew, after all, Xiahou Ba, Cao Cao has great expectations of him. If there is any loss, Cao Cao will not be able to explain it to Xiahou's family.
"Defend the camp?" Cao Cao didn't understand even more. They were attacking Youzhou now, and Zhuojun was an important place. After taking him down, Cao Cao could safely break into the hinterland of Youzhou.
"My lord, if we spare Yuan Tan's soldiers and attack Yuan Shang with all our strength, what do you think Yuan Shang will think?" Guo Jia asked Cao Cao.
"Let Yuan Tan go and attack Yuan Shang with all his strength?" The more Cao Cao thought about it, the brighter his eyes became. This world is not even in balance. If Cao Cao let Yuan Tan go and instead mainly attacked Yuan Shang, Yuan Shang would lose a lot of troops. There will inevitably be resentment in the heart, and the extent of this resentment depends on Cao Cao and the others. At that time, how much friendship the two brothers will have is really not certain.
Guo Jia's idea was to let Cao Cao put his second-line troops, those auxiliary soldiers, outside Yuan Tan's defense line, so that Yuan Tan could not tell the truth. Cao Cao then put all his elite into the fierce attack on the city defended by Yuan Shang, so as to make room for the Yuan brothers.
"Okay!" Cao Cao immediately made a decision, "Let Zhong Quan and Xu Huang switch defenses tomorrow morning."
"No, we have to act now!" Guo Jia shook his head and said to Cao Cao.
"Let them drive overnight?" Cao Cao asked suspiciously.
"Yes, my lord, time waits for no one." Guo Jia explained to Cao Cao, "If time goes on, then Yuan Xi's position as commander-in-chief will really be solid." Guo Jia was a little worried. .
Indeed, in Youzhou, after Yuan Xi became the commander-in-chief, the Yuan family brothers have always suffered defeats, but now that they have won, it is still a series of victories. Even if they can't win, they basically don't suffer.
It is precisely because of this that Yuan Xi has accumulated a lot of prestige among the Yuan family army. All the generals of the Yuan family army like to hear Yuan Xi's command, even the advisers and generals of the Yuan family brothers are also speaking good things for Yuan Xi. Once time goes by, maybe a group of soldiers from the Yuan family will really change their families, because a reliable lord can lead them to victory. Who would want those two nonsense second-generation ancestors to be together.
"Second brother is really Sun Wu alive, and he uses soldiers like a god!" Yuan Shang did not hesitate to praise himself, and his eyes were also smiling, because watching Cao Cao's army deflated by Yuan Xi's hands is not an ordinary feeling. .
"Yeah, with the second brother here, why should we worry that the Cao thief will not retreat." Yuan Tan is also very proud, fighting Cao Cao's army is only worth the money, and waiting for Cao Cao's army to retreat, they can counterattack, living in this place Yuan Tan has had enough of staying in Youzhou.
All the civil and military people on the side are also fighting against Yuan Xijiao
"Where, where!" Yuan Xi said modestly, only the judges beside him and Guo Tu and the others didn't say much. I don't know what to say, but now is the moment of life and death, otherwise they would not be able to unite together, and the blood feud between the two parties is not small.
If the entire alliance was broken because of their words, there really would be no place for them in this world.
Another reason is that following Yuan Xi would lead to victory. If he was given Commander Yuan Tan or Commander Yuan Shang, he would have already been kicked out of the Yalu River by Cao Cao. That's why they pretended they didn't know anything, as long as they didn't take advantage of Yuan Tan (Yuan Shang).
"Third brother, how many new armors and weapons do you have over there!" Yuan Xi asked Yuan Shang beside him, making Yuan Shang vigilant for a while. Could it be that the second brother wants his own weapons and armor. It makes people feel a little funny, Yuan Xi's prestige in his army has been growing day by day, he doesn't want to eliminate the influence, but is wary of these small money.
"There are only less than a thousand pieces!" Yuan Shang picked up a number.
"En?" Yuan Xi frowned. This third brother didn't tell the truth. "Third brother, it's not that the second brother wants your weapons and armor, but that the second brother needs to know the number of a big problem and need to make overall plans."
'"Yeah, third brother, why are you so stingy! Since the second brother has asked questions, how can you lie to the second brother? If this is on the battlefield, it is a lie about the military situation. Second brother, I have two armors here. One thousand sets, three thousand swords." Yuan Xi was also very vigilant at the beginning, but he let go when he heard that Yuan Xi didn't ask them to hand over their weapons and armor, and even tricked his third brother.
"I'm stingy? Hehe, why does someone so generous say that these three thousand armors and five thousand swords are two thousand armor and three thousand swords." Yuan Shang was also poking at Yuan Tan's lameness.
Yuan Xi was very helpless listening to the bickering between the two brothers, but he also slowly learned some information while the two brothers were tearing each other down.
That is, Yuan Shang still has 2,500 armors and 7,000 swords in his hands, and Yuan Xi only has 5,000 swords in his hands, but there are 500 more armors.
The combination of two people can really rebuild a heavy armored step, and even these heavy armored steps are heavy armored cavalry when mounted on a horse. How much Yuan Xi wanted to unify these evil weapons and armor, Knowing that weapons are good, but if they can't be scaled, they are useless in the battle of the army. With so many people, even if you stand and kill them, you can exhaust yourself to death.
But Yuan Xi also knew that he was just thinking about it, and asking his brothers one by one to take out these things would be no less than killing them.
"Brother, third brother, do you have any money? If you have, try to buy more armor and weapons like this. We want to establish a system, so three or two thousand can only be small victories, and those who want real Driving Cao Cao out of Hebei still requires a large-scale army. If Yuan Xi can't get it himself, he can only see if the two brothers can spend a little more money to buy some more, and form a large army after difficulties.
"Money!" Yuan Shang and Yuan Tan were entangled. Although they also wanted more armor and weapons, the price was too expensive. Gongsun Du refused to negotiate the price several times, so the price would never be lowered. Gongsun Du is just a second-hand dealer, he can't decide the price.
"It's enough without adding five thousand!" Yuan Xi said to the two brothers.
"Second brother's matter is very important, so we can take a break!" Yuan Shang asked Yuan Xi over there. This business is worth hundreds of thousands of gold, so he still needs to think about it with his subordinates.
"Second brother, I also need time!"
"Okay! Big brother, third brother, I hope you can give me an answer tomorrow!" Yuan Xi also nodded and began to see off the guests.
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Xu You was beheaded! The vanguard of Cao Cao's army suffered heavy losses? These are all good news, enough to make Yangzhou, our Highness the King of Shu, happy for a while, as long as Cao Cao's pace in the north is slowed down, then the Central Plains will be safe.
"Those weapons and armor seem to have shined in Hebei!" Liu Mang said with a smile.
"That is, the weapons and armor from my Yangzhou Ministry of Industry are not high-quality goods." Xu Shu also nodded to Liu Mang over there.
"My lord, Gongsun Du, sent a letter asking if I could sell it to Cao Cao!" Mi Zhu said to Liu Mang.
Mi Zhu is the Shangshu of the Ministry of Commerce, that is, the Ministry of Household Affairs, a big money bag in Yangzhou, and these businesses are also helped by his people from Mi Zhu.
"Cao Cao is also interested? What is the price?" Liu Mang asked Mi Zhu over there with a smile.
Of course, this Gongsun Du hoped that Liu Mang would sell weapons to Cao Cao. In that case, he would be able to make more money.
"Gongsun Du sent a letter saying that Cao Cao is willing to buy a battle armor with 150 gold and a sword with 80 gold." Mi Zhu said to Liu Mang.
"Haha, that Gongsun Du really knows how to do business." Liu Mang laughed out loud. "He made 50 gold and 20 gold in this way, plus the cost price we gave him, Gongsun Du really made a fortune."
"Huh?" Mi Zhu didn't understand, but Yang Hong next to him explained to Mi Zhu that in Cao Cao's army, Gongsun Du bought weapons and armor for two hundred gold a pair, while weapons and knives were directly one hundred gold. a handful
Not to mention the part that Liu Wei made Gongsun Du earn, there was an extra fifty gold on the plain armor, and an extra twenty gold on the saber, and these price differences naturally fell into the hands of Gongsun Du.
"Tell that Gongsun Du that Cao Cao has one thousand gold for a pair of armor and five hundred gold for a pair of swords. If Cao Cao can afford it, then he will sell it. If he can't afford it, then don't say anything." Liu Mang suddenly became cold, This Gongsun Du is just eating from the bowl and looking at the pot. He has earned hundreds of thousands of gold in the transaction with the Yuan brothers, and he has not given him enough to eat. He even came up with Cao Cao's idea. Let the Yuan family brothers hold Cao Cao, Liu Wei will not sell swords and weapons with him Gongsun Du.
"Yes!" Mi Zhu nodded, Cao Cao's place must not be for sale, a thousand gold for a pair of armor, even Cao Cao can't afford it.
"My lord, the brothers from the Yuan family have also found our business department." Mi Zhu continued.
"Brothers from the Yuan family found the Ministry of Commerce?" Liu Mang asked suspiciously, "What's the matter, is the weapon bad, or?"
"Then the brothers of the Yuan family want to ask the lord if the price of this weapon and armor can be reduced a little." Mi Zhu asked Liu Mang. The cost of this saber armor was ten gold and one hardware, but Liu Mang sold it for a hundred gold and five gold. Ten gold, this is already ten times the profit.
From Mi Zhu's point of view, this price cut doesn't matter, the so-called small profits but quick turnover, it's just as profitable, isn't it
"Impossible!" Liu Mang refused without even thinking about it.
"My lord? The tenfold profit will come back as long as we sell two more handles?" Mi Zhu seemed to want to persuade Liu Mang, but Liu Mang shook his head.
"Zifang, you don't understand, our war swords can only be sold in Yangzhou, just like Yuan Shao and Yuan Benchu didn't sell war horses back then. If we want war horses in the Central Plains, we must buy them from Yuan Shao and Yuan Benchu. The price on the Internet can be exchanged for only a few pieces of salt and iron, but if it is sold in the Central Plains, it will be twenty gold and thirty gold, and even a good war horse can be sold for more than one hundred gold. At that time, Yuan Shaoyuan lowered the price. !" Liu Mang squinted his eyes and said to Mi Zhu, in the final analysis, it was Liu Mang who took a fancy to the family property left behind by Yuan Shao, and the Yuan family was definitely rich in running Hebei war horses for so many years. If it is a wealthy businessman from the Central Plains, then the Zhen family is a wealthy businessman or an official businessman from Hebei. It is not unheard of for the Zhen family to spend a lot of money.
It is one thing to think about the capital left by Yuan Shao, and there is another point, that is, Liu Wei does not want these swords to go to Hebei, because if Hebei goes to the north, it will be a place for foreigners. It would not be good if the swords and high-quality armor leaked into the hands of foreigners. What's more, Liu Wei didn't have much hope for whether the Yuan brothers could resist Cao Cao, because the trajectory of history told Liu Wei The Yuan family brothers can't play Cao Cao well. If Liu Mang lowered the price, the Yuan family brothers bought these weapons and armor wantonly and lost to Cao Cao in the end. The Yuan brothers are just a transition for Liu Wei, and it is enough to rely on them to block Cao Cao for a while.
"But my lord, it seems that the Yuan family brothers really don't have much money!" Mi Zhu wanted to say something else, and the officials of the Ministry of Commerce in Liaodong reported that the Yuan family brothers seemed to be unable to bear such consumption no matter how rich they were. Well, the original purchase of grain and grass was hundreds of thousands, but now it has become one hundred and eighty thousand.
"I have no money!" Liu Wei frowned. If this Yuan family brother really couldn't afford it, it would be really difficult. After all, this Yuan family brother only has one state and his background is limited.
Liu Wei was thinking that this Yuan family brother had something that Liu Wei needed, and it was impossible for Liu Wei to selflessly dedicate it to that Yuan family brother. After all, there is a transaction.
None of the Yuan brothers have money or food, war horses? Liu Mang has Gongsun Du for sale, and the price is still cheap. If he buys too much Gongsun Du, he won't deceive himself into shoddy, weapons and armor? He still has to buy these things from Yangzhou.
Liu Mang really couldn't think of what this Yuan family brother could come up with in exchange for him. It seems that his Yuan family brothers have nothing valuable other than people, and it's useless for Liu Mang to ask for people. Could it be human trafficking
wrong! people? Liu Mang suddenly thought of something, whether in the 21st century or in ancient times, or even in the future, what is the most valuable thing? Not ore, not energy, but talent. Yes, it is talent.
What talents do the Yuan brothers have in their hands
"Who is the counselor in the hands of the Yuan family brothers? Who is the general?" Liu Wei asked Yang Hong over there, who was in charge of Hebei intelligence.
"Guo Tu, the eldest son of the Yuan family, Yuan Tan's adviser." Yang Hong reported to Liu Wei.
"Guo Tu?" Liu Wei thought for a while and shook his head. Although this person is a talent with integrity, it is not what Liu Wei wants now, because this person is very good at one thing, which is infighting.
"Young Master Yuan's generals, Cen Bi, He Yan, Wang Hu" Yang Hong named several names in a row, but Liu Mang didn't know any of them, and only Cen Bi seemed to be a soy sauce-level figure. Liu Mang doesn't need someone who is instantly killed.
"Xin Ping, Judgment." This is Yuan Shang's counselor. Liu Mang doesn't want any of this kind of master of internal strife. No need, because after becoming an emperor, the world can only play like this when the world is peaceful. You haven't really achieved fame yet, thinking about internal strife is not courting death.
These are not what Liu Mang wants, this Yuan family brother seems to be really worthless.
Just when Liu Mang frowned, a small official over there suddenly spoke.
"My lord, Tian Feng, Mr. Tian Yuanhao, seems to be in the hands of the Yuan brothers." The little official said.
Liu Mang looked over, and it turned out that this was an acquaintance, that is our Master Pang's son Pang Shanmin, Mr. Pang knew that his precious son was not good at intrigue, so he thought of sending Pang Shanming to Liu Mang's side, Let's see if Liu Mang can help. Liu Mang also found a position for this brother Shanmin who doesn't want to cheat, that is, the professor of Yangzhou Academy, and asked Pang Shanmin to teach students like his father. There is no need to worry about intrigues and the like.
Do it early, sooner or later the world will be full of peaches and plums, and a great Confucianist will not be able to escape.
The reason why Pang Shanmin came to Shouchun's meeting hall this time was because Pang Shanmin wanted to borrow books from Liu Mang's.
The ancients have been studying literature all the time, but they rarely learn mathematics. Therefore, Pang Shanmin, who was in Lumen Academy by his father's side, didn't know much about the nine-nine multiplication table, but Liu Mang's Yangzhou Academy did. To teach this, Pang Shanmin can only learn from the beginning.
"Tian Feng? Isn't he dead?" Liu Mang said this subconsciously.
"Mr. Yuan Hao is dead?" Pang Shanmin was also stunned for a moment, and then he was about to cry. Tian Feng is also a great Confucian. For people like Pang Shanmin, he said that he was an idol. When the idol died, he naturally wanted to cry. It's been a while.
"My lord, where did you know that Tian Tian Motoho is dead?" Yang Hong who was beside him asked suspiciously.
"Isn't it?" Liu Mang rubbed his head, "Didn't this Tian Feng be beheaded by Yuan Shao after Yuan Shao's army defeated Guandu?" Liu Mang still remembered that Yuan Shao's advisers at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the official did not drive to Jizhou. He is upright and upright, and has repeatedly made suggestions to Yuan Shao but was not adopted. Cao Cao's adviser Xun Yu once commented that he was "hard and offended". Later, he was imprisoned by Yuan Shao for admonishing Yuan Shao to conquer Cao Cao. After the Battle of Guandu, Tian Feng was killed by Yuan Shao.
"My lord, Yuan Shao and Yuan Benchu fell into a coma after the Battle of Guandu. How could I have the time to kill that Tian Tianyuan Yuanhao?" Yang Hong shook his head and said to Liu Wei. Yuan Shu was defeated by his subordinates, and he always wanted to go to Hebei to seek refuge with his brother Yuan Shao, so Yang Hong sent out spies in order to pave the way for Yuan Shu as soon as possible. This Tian Feng is really not dead.
"Tian Feng is not dead!?" Liu Mang's eyes suddenly lit up. If Tian Feng is not dead, then the Yuan brothers really have the conditions for a deal.
"Tian Feng is not dead, what about Jushou?" Liu Mang asked again.
I wanted to get the exact news from Yang Hong's mouth, but Yang Hong shook his head, "My lord, Hong doesn't know!" Some people said that Jushou had died in Guandu, and some said that Jushou was killed by Yuan Shang. He died, after all, Jushou was Yuan Shao's loyalist, and some people even said that Jushou was killed by Yuan Shao.
"Ju Shou Tian Feng! Well, as long as you get this one person, it means that the deal is not a loss!" Liu Mang couldn't wait and said to his subordinate Mi Zhu, "Zi Fang, you have worked hard, and then send your officials from the Ministry of Commerce to go and talk to me immediately. Then the Yuan family brothers contacted and said that I want Tian Feng and other general Yuan Shao's former generals, and you can negotiate the price, but Tian Feng must get it."
Liu Mang suddenly found a treasure house, he was so excited. Yuan Shao was indeed defeated, but many endings were different from before. Those generals and scholars who should have surrendered to Cao Cao were also left behind by accident. down.
This Tian Feng should have died early, but suddenly he didn't die.
Liu Mang wondered if he could go to the Yuan brothers again to see if he could get more things.
"Yes!" Mi Zhu nodded, and soon an envoy headed for Hebei from the waterway in a warship.
He went ashore from Gongsundu's territory in Liaodong, and then escorted Mi Zhu's men to Youzhou, which was occupied by the Yuan brothers, with soldiers and horses sent by Gongsundu in Liaodong. r1152
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