Chapter 30 Business War First

"Zilong?" On this day, Liu Bei sent someone to spread Zhao Feng to discuss something important. He just walked out of his house and unexpectedly found that it was Zhao Yun who came out of the opposite house.

"I haven't seen Bo Tao for a long time! It's been almost a month since Yun came to Xuzhou, but we didn't meet until today. I didn't expect that Bo Tao lived so close. Zhao Yun was also a little surprised when he saw Zhao Feng, and even came forward to say hello. It's really funny. Zhao Feng has been back to Xuzhou for a few days, but because he is busy with Sun Qian to build Xuzhou College these days, he notices that his new neighbor is Zhao Yun.

The two went all the way to see Liu Bei. After a discussion on the road, Zhao Feng knew that Zhao Yun remembered Zhao Feng's reminder at that time that he had been prepared for Gongsun Zan's defeat. Therefore, when the latter died, Zhao Yun was able to lead more than 4,000 cavalry out of the siege, and then fled to Xuzhou through Qingzhou to defect to Liu Bei.

"So that's it. If Zilong doesn't die in a great disaster, he will be blessed." Zhao Feng complimented, but he was very happy: 4,000 cavalry, Xuzhou originally had only a few thousand cavalry in the Taoqian era, plus the Bingzhou wolf cavalry that confiscated Lv Bu, and Zhao Yun's 4,000 cavalry, Xuzhou can finally gather more than 10,000 cavalry.

When the two of them arrived at Xuzhou Mufu, Zhao Feng found that many people had arrived. Even Chen Deng, who has lived in a simple way to recuperate in recent years, and Zhao Yu, a cheap brother in the East China Sea, have come here. There is probably something important.

Sure enough, Lao Liu saw that Zhao Feng also came, so he explained the reason for the matter to everyone: "Recently, many spies have come to report that Yuan Shao in Jizhou and Cao Qian in Yanzhou are buying grain, recruiting soldiers, and building military weapons. It seems that there will be some big action. What do you think I should do in Xuzhou?

At this time, a stone really stirred up a thousand waves, but it was not over. Zhao Yu, who came specially from the East China Sea, also said at this time, "Master, it's more than that. Recently, the Zhen family in Hebei and the Wei family in Yanzhou have come to the East China Sea to buy salt in the East China Sea, and the number is amazing. It seems that it should be needed by the army."

The mountain rain is coming and the wind is blowing all over the building! Zhao Feng sighed in his heart, but Chen Deng, who was sick, said slowly, "Your lord, the summer grain has just been harvested. I think that Cao Qian and Yuan Shao will only wait for the new recruits to finish training and then they will go to war. It's just that it's not clear whether they are fighting by themselves or fighting against me in Xuzhou or Yuzhou. At present, although I, Xuzhou, have regained my vitality, it is not bad to deal with Huainan Yuan Shu, and it is inevitable to deal with Cao Wei and Yuan Shao. Therefore, if they come to invade, we should focus on guarding; if they fight by themselves, we will take the opportunity to deal with Yuan Shu.

"That's the only way." After thinking about it, Liu Bei knew that what Chen Deng said was also true. His current strength was really not enough to fight with Yuan Shao and Cao, and bully Yuan Shu at best. Zhao Feng also recently learned that Yuan Shu began to recruit troops in Huainan. It seems that in a few months at most, this brother will come out as a leader.

However, it is not Zhao Feng's style to wait for his opponent to make a move. Especially in the face of giants like Cao Qian and Yuan Shao, Zhao Feng will never let go of any opportunity to weaken their strength. Lord, since the Zhen family and the Wei family have come to Xuzhou to buy salt and grain, we can take the opportunity to get some war horses from them!" Zhao Feng said. "

"Huh?" Liu Bei was also moved when he heard this: Xuzhou and Yuzhou did not produce horses. Now the infantry have passed Zhao Feng, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and Chen's training, and their combat effectiveness has been quite considerable. However, no matter how strong the infantry is, it can only be used for siege or defense. The real field battle of cold weapons still depends on cavalry. But if you want to get a horse, you have to do it from the north or the west. It is unrealistic to be too far away from Xiliang, so we can only start from the north. Since Cao Yan and Yuan Shao are in urgent need of salt, they should take advantage of the fire to get some horses.

According to Zhao Feng's idea, the total population of Yuzhou in Xuzhou is nearly 5 million. In addition to the local garrison, there should be 200,000 infantry and 50,000 cavalry. Think about it, there are 30,000 cavalry in that state of Jingzhou. The 10,000 cavalry in Xuzhou is really too shabby, not to mention that there are only thousands in Yuzhou.

"Zizhong, I'll hand this matter over to you. Go and talk to the Zhen family and the Wei family!" Liu Bei also made a plan in the end. After coming to this world for more than six years, Zhao Feng also knows some basic common sense. The so-called four major merchants are the Zhen family in Jizhou, the Mi family in Xuzhou, the Qin family in Yizhou and the Wei family in Yanzhou. Among them, Wei Hong, the head of the Wei family, once funded Cao Qian to rise up, and now cooperates happily with Cao Qian; the Mi family and the Zhen family hugged Liu Bei and Yuan Shao's thighs respectively; as for the Qin family, it is said that they are very powerful in Yizhou, and even Liu Zhang, the herdsman of Yizhou, wants to give them three points.

"I Zhu understands!" Mi Zhu was also full of confidence. At this time, Chen Deng coughed more and more, and finally spit out a mouthful of blood with a "wow".

"How about Yuanlong?" Everyone didn't care whether it was suitable or not, so they hurried forward to help him lie down in the hall, and then quickly sent the doctor to check.

"It's useless. The onset of the disease this year is getting more and more frequent, but many people's visits to famous doctors are not the point. It's probably close to Shouyuan!" Chen Deng was a little gloomy. Hearing this, Zhao Feng suddenly flashed in his mind and quickly asked, "I don't know if Yuan Long has ever heard of the two great doctors today?"

Chen Deng was stunned and then asked, "I don't know which two great doctors are?"

"One is Hua Tuo, Qiao County. This person's medical skill is known as Bian Que's reincarnation. It is said that it is also easy to have a caesarean section. However, in his life, he likes to walk around the world to practice medicine, so his whereabouts are uncertain. The other is Zhang Zhongjing, the governor of Changsha. This person is in the government office to treat the people on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and he is divided. He doesn't accept it. He is known as a sitting guard. It is said that he can even cure typhoid fever. Zhao Feng introduced with a slight exaggeration.

Caesarean section and typhoid fever are simply unimaginable for people in this era. For a while, everyone was a little distracted. After a long time, Liu Bei was the first to return to God and said, "Changsha is too far away. I don't know where Hua Tuo is now. I should find him as soon as possible and ask him to come to Xuzhou to diagnose and treat Yuanlong." So he ordered many people to send people to inquire about Hua Tuo's whereabouts.

In the following days, Zhao Feng was mainly busy preparing for the construction of Xuzhou College with Sun Qian. The news of the application has been released to Xuzhou and Yuzhou, and the response is still relatively enthusiastic. Originally, it was planned to recruit 300 people in civil and military, but the total number of applicants was nearly 1,000. The questions of the examination are also discussed by Zhao Feng, Sun Qian and others. The test points of the liberal arts are poetry, songs and arithmetic to see how the basics of writing and calculation are; the martial arts is to test some simple words, and then the general training content such as raising stones, archery and long-distance running. The 600 candidates who were finally selected were equipped with unified student uniforms and became the first batch of students of Xuzhou College.

"They are all young people!" On the first day of freshmen's enrollment, Liu Bei was also present in person. Looking at the young people dressed in uniform, Lao Liu seemed to be ten years younger.

"This is proposed by Bo Tao. Candidates must not be older than 25 years old and not less than 15 years old." Chen Qun, who was beside him, replied. Zhao Feng did this, in fact, he just wanted to build a relatively young team of grass-roots cadres, but now he is busy recruiting new recruits with Zhang Fei, and he can't take care of this side.

After being busy for more than a month, Zhao Feng was a little relieved that the college construction and recruitment of new recruits had begun to be large-scale. When he met Mi Zhu that day, Zhao Feng was surprised to find that the richest businessman in Xuzhou had obviously lost a lot of weight.

"Brother Zizhong, why are you haggard here?" Zhao Feng said strangely. Mi Zhu sighed and said, "I don't know anything about Bo Tao. Recently, I have been busy with business with the Zhen family and the Wei family. Neither of these two companies has as much financial resources as me, so it's quite difficult!"

Zhao Feng was also slightly moved, and it was rare to see Mi Zhu so solemn. At the moment, Suo asked more, "What's the situation now?"

"What else can I do? The Zhen family and the Wei family also have shops in Xuzhou, and now they are buying grain and salt. I proposed to exchange salt for horses with them, but they were very demanding. The Zhen family wanted 200 stones of grain to exchange a horse, and the Wei family wanted 500 stones. Now I can only try my best to buy grain and hoard it. Mi Zhu was a little gloomy.

"Damn it, isn't this a naked robbery?" Zhao Feng said with hatred in his heart, and then gave advice to Mi Zhu: "Brother Zizhong, if you really can't do it, let the lord order to close these guys' shops in Xuzhou, or levy heavy taxes on them, compensate them to death, and let them lose their money."

"If you really can't do it, that's the only way!" Mi Zhu sighed. However, Zhao Feng also knew that the prosperity of Xuzhou was inseparable from the two companies. Their shops and restaurants in Xuzhou were also everywhere. If they are really completely shut down, they can be once and for all, but both sides will lose. Therefore, it is better to use the government to focus on policy regulation.

"It's all caused by money!" Zhao Feng went home with emotion all the way. The war was actually a multi-faceted battle, including economic strength. In the face of the absolute power gap, any strategy is useless. From this point of view, it is rare for Zhuge Liang to resist Cao Wei, who occupied almost the whole Central Plains with Yizhou in history, and to maintain an invincible situation.

However, it is obvious that Yuan Shu in Huainan and even Yuan Shao in Hebei do not understand this. Although these two brothers have a geographical advantage, they are restrained to the people and do not care about the people's livelihood, which led to the final failure. Zhao Feng is now looking forward to the stars and the moon, and he is looking forward to Yuan Laoer's early claim to the throne. However, Zhang Liao and Zang Ba of Guangling have been getting news recently, reporting in time how far Yuan Shu has expanded his army. Now it is nearly 300,000, and it is probably soon.

"Husband, come back very early today!" As Diao Chan took Zhao Feng off his armor and robe, he asked.

"Yes, I was very busy a while ago, and I've finally been idle recently." Zhao Feng answered casually. Suddenly, he also had a burst of painstaking efforts. He said again, "Why don't we go shopping together? We haven't visited yet."

"Okay!" Diao Chan was also indispensable. At that moment, Zhao Feng found a cler's robe and put it on, and took Diao Chan to walk on Xuzhou Street. In ancient times, there were no newspapers and TVs. Even if you were a well-known person, there were not many people who could really recognize you in person, so Zhao Feng dared to go to the street in a little disguise. However, considering that Diao Chan's appearance is too outstanding, it is better to let a few family follow her from afar to prevent someone from making trouble in front of her.

After the governance of Chen Qun, Mi Zhu and others in the past two years, Xuzhou City has completely restored the prosperous scene of the past, and even passed. At this time, the sun is setting, and all the shops and restaurants are still open.

"Xuzhou City is really prosperous, and it is much better than Chang'an in those years!" It is said that shopping is a woman's instinct, which is also reflected in Diao Chan's skills. She looked left and right, and Zhao Feng almost became a follower.

"Madam, let me buy you a piece of jewelry!" Seeing a jewelry store ahead, Zhao Feng became passive and took the initiative to say hello. All right!" Diao Chan smiled and the two of them entered the jewelry store together.

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