In fact, Liu Zheng is not short of money and food now.

The money and grain he plundered from Luoyang was enough for these men and horses under his command to eat and drink without worry for two or three years.

But he still understands the truth of sitting on the mountain and eating empty. This can be regarded as having money and food for two or three years, but he now has a big family and a big business, with nearly 50,000 horses under his command.

These tens of thousands of people depend on him alone for their food and drink.

If he doesn't do anything and occupies Mingyue Cottage like this, if this goes on for a long time, sooner or later the money and grain he looted from Luoyang will be spent and there will be nothing left.

He can't go around plundering like Ou Xing, and at the same time, he can collect taxes from Yichun County and even a few surrounding towns to support himself.

Liu Zheng, who has no other financial resources, can only rely on himself to be self-sufficient. It is difficult to feed the 50,000 soldiers and horses under his command.

And to be able to feed 50,000 soldiers and horses, if you don't rely on agriculture, you can only rely on commerce.

It just so happens that for business, although Liu Zheng doesn't know much about it, he is a modern person. Buy low and sell high, and the two places have different resource procurement and output, this simple truth he still understands.

So it is still necessary to build a fleet.

Of course, building a fleet to make money is the main purpose, in fact, there are two other functions.

First, because now that Liu Zheng occupies the vicinity of Mingyue Cottage, if he chases the Central Plains in the future, he must start from the south, and the most powerful in the south is the navy.

If you want to train the navy, Liu Zheng can't do it for the time being, so she also wants to use a fleet of ships that do business on the water to disguise it, gradually train the navy, and strengthen the strength of the navy step by step.

At the same time, he still has to go back and forth to do business, and if Liu Zheng wants to know about the world's major events as soon as possible, and to know some news about Luoyang and the Central Plains, he must also establish his own intelligence network.

Then the establishment of this intelligence network has an important relationship with this fleet.

As long as his business network is all over the country, then relying on this business network can expand the intelligence network to the entire Han world, and once there is any wind and grass in the world, Liu Zheng will be able to grasp it at the first time.

Don't underestimate these intelligence networks, many times it is with this intelligence that we can anticipate the opportunity and make plans and preparations for response in a short period of time.

"You're going to build a merchant fleet."

After Lu Jun heard Liu Zheng's words, his face showed a slight surprise. But soon he figured it out and was relieved.

Since Liu Zheng wants to be a merchant ship, it means that Liu Zheng does not intend to occupy Yichun County and follow the example of the district star to collect taxes as a way to live.

As long as Liu Zheng is dedicated to goodness and has a good direction of development, Lu Jun's last concern about Liu Zheng will be gone.

"You will take care of this matter with me, don't worry, I will definitely get all the documents you need, when your caravan will be established, just send someone to contact me."

"When I get some things done with the cottage tomorrow, I will start to prepare for the caravan, and then I will ask Brother Lu."

Liu Zheng and Lu Jun discussed in this restaurant for a long time. The two passed by the merchant ship that Liu Zheng said, and started a discussion, Liu Zheng had no experience after all, Lu Jun was also a child of the Lu family of the Jiangdong clan, and he knew more about these things than Liu Zheng.

As for Liu Zheng's lack of understanding of business, he was responsible for the establishment of merchant ships, but fortunately he handed over all this matter to Yuan Zhou.

Yuan Zhou was very interested in these things, and the next few days were simple.

Without the distractions of war, Liu Zheng immediately busied himself with the construction of Mingyue Cottage.

The bright moon cottage will be built into a paradise.

The first month was spent on a large scale of construction and large-scale construction of houses, which would be enough to accommodate tens of thousands of people, and the construction was completed in a short time.

Later, he led everyone to reclaim the wasteland and learn fishing techniques at the same time.

In this Mingyue Mountain Range, Liu Zheng knew a long time ago that there was a large reservoir inside, and the reservoir area ran through several surrounding counties, dividing Mingyue Mountain into several pieces and several small islands.

This lake is big enough, the water is rich in fishery, there is a famine in all parts of the Central Plains, and the people are distressed and want to rebel, Yichun County is quite stable.

First, there is no Yellow Turban Army here, there is no famine, and the people live in peace, but occasionally some Shanyue people come to make trouble.

Now that Liu Zheng occupies Mingyue Cottage, the first thing he does is to feed his own people first, forming self-sufficiency, and the agricultural returns are not fast, and it often takes several months to have a harvest.

But the basic methods of hunting and fishing are very effective.

Not only can they bring food supplies to Liu Zheng and them in a short period of time, but they can also contact Liu Zheng and them to swim in the lake.

After more than a month of busy work, the time has gradually entered the middle of October from the end of August when Liu Zheng left Luoyang.

In the past month, the affairs of Mingyue Cottage have gradually entered the right track, tens of thousands of horses have begun to settle down in Mingyue Cottage, and the caravan formed at the same time, with the help of Yuan Zhou and Lu Jun, began to think about Changsha County and Yuzhang County to start a simple small business.

With Yuan Zhou as the leader, Liu Zheng asked Su Fei and Huang Zhong to assist.

The reason why Su Fei and Huang Zhong were asked to assist Yuan Zhou was also because Su Fei was originally a native of Jiangxia County, walking in the waters of Dongting Lake all the year round, and he was also familiar with water, and in terms of business, it was not bad to have Su Fei's help.

As for Huang Zhong, Liu Zheng wants to establish an intelligence network, and he will inevitably let Huang Zhong organize it in the future, so let Huang Zhong follow and familiarize himself with it first.

The reason why I didn't choose Xu Huang and Zhou Cang was that they were both from the Yellow Turban Army, and they were not familiar with the place and water, so they were really not suitable for doing these things.

In addition, Liu Zheng still needs manpower in Mingyue Cottage, and the defense and training of soldiers and horses cannot be delayed.

Although there is no war now, but the training can not be stopped for a day, Xu Huang and Zhou Cang and others will be responsible for training soldiers and horses, the two thousand cavalry, one thousand archers, during this time, they must strengthen training.

At the same time, Liu Zheng also plans to set up a water army, and there are still many things to be busy.

After the establishment of the merchant ship, news was transmitted back to Liu Zheng one after another, so that Liu Zheng, who was in the mountains of Yichun, also began to know what was happening in the Central Plains.

In fact, there is not much to do, it is nothing more than that after Wang Fen of Jizhou supported Liu as emperor, Luoyang was shocked and began to eliminate Wang Fen, a rebel.

Zhonglang will Huangfu Song to fight the main battle, one mountain cannot tolerate two tigers, and Wang Fen is not in line with the regulations of the imperial court.

But the general He Jin was in a dilemma.