When Sun Ce walked out of the door, he was still dizzy.

500,000 stones, so much grain, where do you get it from?

"Gong Jin, 500,000 stones? Even if we take out Danyang's military rations, we don't have enough, ten days... Isn't that embarrassing for us! ”

Zhou Yu smiled indifferently and said, "I still have more than 100,000 stones at home, you can take them all out, and Wu Junshou can borrow at least 50,000 stones, that is to say, we only need to get another 300,000 stones."

Bo Fu, do you know where Lu Jining, the guard of Lujiang County, is from? ”

"Yes, Wu Jun."

"Isn't that enough, now that most of the Lu clan are in Lujiang, they are not interested in these open and secret battles in Wu County? It's just that he doesn't want to be the first villain, he doesn't want to, we can help them, let the Lu family sell us the grain, and then we can resell it to the Zhenbei Army? Let's go, let's go find the Lu family, they will definitely be willing! ”

Sun Ce was stunned when he heard this, how could he definitely be a big problem, in Zhou Yu's hands, it didn't seem to be a problem.

"Is that okay??"

"Absolutely! Come on!! ”

Things are the same as Zhou Yu guessed, when he heard Zhou Yu's proposal, and Zhou Yu promised to only be a middleman, not to charge a penny of benefits, and to let the Zhenbei Army give the Lu family the best price, Lu Huan immediately agreed to this plan to secretly Chen Cang, in this troubled world, the Lu family has already set a plan to develop in Lujiang, after all, in Lujiang, the Lu family has soldiers and horses in hand.

There is no impermeable wall in the world, and when they learned that the Lu family was mobilizing grain and grass, the other three couldn't sit still, even Zhang Yun had to accompany the smiling face, while talking nonsense, while pulling Zhen Yan to say that the county guard was willing to use grain and grass to buy the northern goods of the Zhenbei Army.

Zhen Yan looked at the grain that was constantly being transported to the warehouse, and her smiling eyes were almost gone.

Now his problem is not that he can't buy food, but ... I don't think there's enough to carry on the boat!

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"700,000 stones, and I bought thirteen sea ships and leased thirty-five..."

A stone in the Han Dynasty is about 15 kilograms in later generations, 10,000 stone is 150 tons, and now 700,000 stones are pulled in one go, which is already tens of thousands of tons of grain.

"Zhen Yan is doing a good job!" Ma Qiang clapped his hands and smiled, and a boulder in his heart finally landed.

The Zhenbei Army already had a food crisis, this time it got Youzhou, although there were some supplements, but it was still insufficient, and now the trade route with Yangzhou has been opened, which has completely revitalized the economy of the Zhenbei Army with four crises.

More importantly, the Zhenbei Army can mobilize a strong industrial capacity and continuously transport industrial products to the south for agricultural products, forming a scissors gap between workers and peasants, and preparing for the pacification of the south in the future.

"But Sun Ce and Zhou Yu are still together, and they still want artillery...."Ma Qiang stroked his beard and thought about it.

History tells us that if we can't produce it ourselves, even if we buy more, we will still have an accident in case of emergency.

With the economic development of later generations, gradually some people began to advocate the idea that it is better to buy than to buy, and it is better to rent than to buy, and think that this is the inevitable trend of the international division of labor.

But this logic is actually wrong, because the lighthouse country of later generations, with its military, economic, and political hegemony, is not afraid that others will not sell it at all. At least before Ma Qiang crosses, it still can't.

Therefore, as long as Sun Ce could not make artillery, Ma Qiang did not care about selling artillery.

Ma Qiang believes that when he needs to consider the issue of pacifying Jiangnan, the current artillery will no longer be able to pose any threat to himself.

After all, the current artillery does not even have a high-explosive shell.

"Huang Xu, immediately let Zhen Yan come to Guangzong quickly, by the way, there is also Guan Cheng!" Ma Qiang put down Zhen Yan and shouted to the outside.

"Wow!!"

While Ma Qiang was thinking about what conditions to use to sell the artillery in the room, Yuan Shao was watching a performance.

- Taiyuan

"Ming Gong, this is the gunpowder we developed, this is the gunpowder we seized." A man dressed as a craftsman bent down and pointed to two plates of black powder.

Yuan Shao stepped forward and carefully observed the two plates of black powder, and saw that the two were almost identical in appearance, so he couldn't help but nod and said happily, "Maybe it will cause thunder and stone cracks?" ”

The craftsman immediately replied, "Yes, the lowly has already made a grenade, and it can be tested at any time, but I don't know where to detonate it?" ”

"Just outside the temple! Just go! ”

"No!!"

After a while, the craftsman came back and said that the preparations were finished, and Yuan Shao took his subordinates Wenwu out of the hall together, and saw a young man outside the hall holding a torch and a counterfeit grenade in his hand.

"Try it now!"

With Yuan Shao's order, the young man put the grenade on the ground, and then walked dozens of steps away with the lead, and then lit the fuse, and as soon as it was lit, the boy ran out like crazy.

I saw the lead quickly burn towards the grenade, and with the last bang, black smoke rose up, and the explosion resounded throughout the compound, and the grenade was blown into several pieces, and he walked within one or twenty steps around.

Yuan Shao looked at all this, touched his chin, and always felt that something was wrong.

"What do you think?"

Xu You was the first to pat his ass and said, "Congratulations to Ming Gong!" Congratulations to Ming Gong!! We have the thunder, and we are no longer afraid of the Zhenbei Army! ”

"Mr. Xu said with a smile, when have we ever been afraid!" Guo Tu snorted and said, "Ming Gong, please also order a large number of these things, after this year's autumn harvest, it will be the time when we will return to Jizhou." ”

For a while, the congratulatory voice was like a tide, but Yuan Shao kept frowning, he still felt that something was wrong.

"Yan Liang, Wen Chou, you talk about it." Yuan Shao looked at his two favorite generals.

Yan Liang knocked on his head, and said with some uncertainty, "It rained that night, and the grenades of the Zhenbei Army are still available, I don't know if ours can also be waterproof, and this power... It seems to be a little smaller. ”

That's right!

Yuan Shao finally understood that something was wrong.

Now this imitation grenade is much worse than the Zhenbei Army version.

"Huh? Matching, what's going on! ”

The matter of building Tianlei, Yuan Shao was handed over to the trial and matching.

The judge swallowed his saliva and arched his hand and said, "Ming Gong, this... I don't know even below. ”

"Dr. Ma!"

The craftsman was so frightened that he fell to his knees with a puff, and said tremblingly, "Hui Minggong's words, the imitation grenade structure is indeed exactly the same as that used by the Zhenbei Army, and the problem is still in this gunpowder formula..."