That night, in the mansion of his uncle Dong Cheng, Kong Rong, Yang Biao and others gathered together to discuss the matter of food.

"Now the price of grain has risen to 1,200 yuan a stone, and tomorrow I am afraid it will be 1,300 yuan." Kong Rong said softly.

Nowadays, the problem of food prices is already the most serious problem in the entire Xu capital, but fortunately, Cao Cao has introduced a guarantee system that allows all ordinary people to receive food regularly, otherwise it has become a mess, and there may even be a rebellion.

Although Dong Cheng and the others didn't like Cao Cao, they didn't want to see Xu Du in chaos, so it wouldn't be of much benefit to them, and they might even flee again with the Son of Heaven.

Yang Biao also said: "Now that food prices are high, I don't know how much grain both of you bought?" When I was 800 yuan a stone, I bought 100,000 stones, and I waited to sell them to Cao Cao in a few days. ”

Speaking of this, he snorted lightly and said, "I finally understand why Cao Cao sold wine, and the wine money is what he wants to use to buy grain, and I have to earn back all the money from the grain to buy wine." ”

Hearing this, Dong Cheng smiled and said, "Even if Cao Cao uses all the money we used to buy wine to buy grain, I'm afraid he won't be able to buy your 100,000 stones, right?" ”

Before Yang Biao could speak, Kong Rong said first: "Don't worry about this problem, there has been no rain for nearly two months now, which shows how serious the drought is." Since there is a great drought in the world, what is lacking is food, and now starting from the grain price of Xudu, I am afraid that the price of grain in other states will be higher in the future, and it will not lose money to prepare a little more grain, if I guess correctly, Uncle Guo also bought a lot of grain during this time, right? ”

Dong Cheng nodded and smiled: "Wenju, what you said is right, this money is not lost." ”

Then, all three of them laughed.

"However, what we should think about most now is how to deal with Cao Cao, although he is not as brutal as Dong Zhuo and others back then, but his mind is exactly the same as Dong Zhuo's, and he is not as unscrupulous and arrogant as Dong Zhuo, which is the most terrifying." Dong Cheng said worriedly.

These words made Kong Rong and the others fall into deep thought.

"Xu Du is Cao Cao's place, and the military power is in Cao Cao's hands, so it's probably not easy to deal with him!" Yang Biao shook his head and sighed.

They had already been unhappy with Cao Cao, and after hearing the words of the two, Kong Rong also said: "If you want to deal with Cao Cao, you can only rely on external forces!" ”

Dong Cheng immediately shook his head and said: "This is not good, if other people are also holding the Son of Heaven hostage like Cao Cao, wouldn't we lead the wolf into the house?" ”

As soon as these words fell, Kong Rong and Yang Biao both frowned, this matter was difficult to solve.

"Master, Lord Sima asks to see you!"

At this moment, a housekeeper from the uncle's mansion was hurriedly walking in.

"Sima Fang, what is he doing?" Dong Cheng pondered for a moment, waved his hand, and said, "Let him come in!" ”

Soon, Sima Fang appeared in front of them, followed by a middle-aged man.

"Sima Fang has seen Uncle Guo, Lord Yang, and Master Kong." Sima Fang bowed slightly, and so did the person beside him.

"It's so late, Lord Sima is coming to me, what's the matter?" Dong Cheng asked.

I only saw Sima Fang pondering for a while, and said: "I already have a plan to break Cao Cao, and I want to discuss it with Uncle Guo, but I didn't expect Lord Yang and Master Kong to be there." ”

"What!"

Dong Cheng and the three of them were stunned for a moment, and hurriedly said, "What is Jiangong's plan?" ”

Sima Fang glanced at the person beside him and said, "Wenhe, come on!" ”

The man stepped forward and said respectfully, "In Xia Jia Xu, I have seen Uncle Guo......"

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The next morning, Chen Yang got up in Zhang Chunhua's gentle township and continued to practice Hua Tuo's five-bird opera, as well as sword practice with Wang Yue.

After practicing the Five Fowl Opera and Sword for half a month, Chen Yang has few achievements, but compared with a big swordsman like Wang Yue, he is still as vulnerable as a child.

"Shopkeeper Chen, I'm here again!"

Just as Chen Yang was practicing his sword, Cao Ang walked into his backyard with a smile.

During this time, Cao Ang came to find Chen Yang almost every day, they almost didn't live together, and the whole Chen Mansion knew about him, and now he just wanted to come and enter the door directly.

"Xiao Cao, let's go to the salt mine today to have a look, let's go!" Chen Yang threw the sword to Wang Yue casually, and after going back to the room to change a set of clothes, the two went out directly.

At present, their focus has shifted from taverns to salt mines, and the wineries have begun to produce wine, which is being sent to the families one after another.

As for Chen Yang's restaurant, which has not opened until now, he plans to cut the leeks this time and make a lot of money before it officially opens, so there is no need to worry.

Not long after, the two arrived at the salt mine barracks outside the city.

"Lord!"

As soon as Ye Shun saw Chen Yang appear, he took the lead in kneeling down with a few pro-soldier lieutenants to greet him.

"Get up, you've worked hard, how are you doing?"

Chen Yang walked slowly in front of many soldiers like a parade horse.

Ye Shun said: "Everything is fine, and the factory you want has been completed last night, as long as the craftsman comes, it can be put into production at any time." ”

Chen Yang nodded with satisfaction after hearing this, and took Cao Ang to take a brief look here.

The plant used to purify and produce salt ore is completely built according to Chen Yang's standards, although it is still very different from modern society, but it has been built very well.

In addition, next to the factory, a simple dormitory was built for those workers.

In addition, Chen Yang also planned a huge school field that can accommodate more than 5,000 people on the other side of the mine, which is used to train those soldiers.

Since he wants to train, Chen Yang will not follow the ancient set of training methods, he will copy the training methods of special forces in modern society, except for the lack of thermal weapons, as long as other training equipment can be manufactured, it is basically complete.

"Shopkeeper Chen, what is the use of these things you got on the school grounds?" Cao Ang looked at the arrangement of those training troops in puzzlement, and asked suspiciously.

"It's all for military training, and now I haven't figured out how to train, and in two days, when my training plan comes out, I'm going to train them in hell." Chen Yang looked at the three thousand soldiers and smiled proudly, this is the benefit of being the master.

Ye Shun, who had been following beside him, suddenly heard this sentence, and his heart was suddenly shocked, and he inexplicably had a feeling that Chen Yang's training method might not be too simple.

Cao Ang was still puzzled and said: "Is it really possible to use these to train soldiers?" ”

Chen Yang said with a smile: "If I say yes, I must be able to, I want to train all these 3,000 people to become the king of soldiers!" ”

After inspecting the factory, Chen Yang said again: "Xiao Cao, now you can recruit workers, the salt mine must be put into production as soon as possible to make money, you help me prepare a notice, I have already thought about the location of recruitment." ”

Cao Ang nodded, and according to Chen Yang's instructions, he wrote a notice first, and then went back to the city of Xu together.

However, Chen Yang's choice of recruitment location made the corners of Cao Ang's mouth twitch, because this was outside the mansion.

Last time, it was blocked outside the gate of the palace, but this time it was the government office.

Cao Ang thought to himself, only Chen Yang dared to do this, and no one else could think of this.

But it is indeed a good place outside the mansion, because it is located in the downtown area of Xudu, people come and go, and as soon as the notice is posted, it attracts many onlookers.