After listening to Jia Xu's persuasion, Er Li gradually had different views, especially Li Xian, who was more powerful before, and was still a little confused.

Li Xian said, "I thought that Jia Wenhe would support you and my brother, but I didn't expect him to persuade us to cooperate with Dong Bai and Tong Yuan." ”

Li Bei said, "There is nothing wrong with this, since it is the bureaucrats and scholars in the DPRK and China who are making ghosts, then we need to cooperate with each other." Now that my uncle is gone, I have to take Dong Bai and Tong Yuan as the leaders. ”

Li Xian said: "I feel that the people of Xiliang now have their own characteristics. You and I hold the army and Chang'an, and we are currently suffering a slight setback, but we can catch up. Li Ru and Jia Xu are very strategic, but they are trapped by the court and the Northwest Office, so they can only make suggestions. ”

"Dong Bai and Tong Yuan occupy the land of Qin and Jin, but they have offended Yuan Shao and Hu Ren, and they have no extra strength. General Zhang Ji is older and has a strong army, but he is far away from us and has no friendship. ”

Li Bei said, "When you say that, you really have your own weaknesses." ”

Li Xian concluded, "So I can only listen to Jia Xu's strategy and cooperate with Dong Bai and Tong Yuan for the time being." I believe that in less than a year, we will be able to take the power of Chang'an, control all departments, and revitalize the dynasty. ”

Both of them laughed, but Li Bei didn't seem to be so inflated, and obediently fed back the information to Jia Xu.

Jia Xu saw that the plan had been accomplished, so he reported to Tong Yuan and asked Qi Zhen to secretly contact Li Bei and open a breakthrough from him.

Li Bei had seen Zhang Lu and Feng Mou before, and he had received a lot of benefits, so he naturally took the initiative to embrace him at this time.

With his cooperation, trade between Qiqi County and Jingzhao and Fufeng County was resumed, and a large amount of grain and commodities were imported to alleviate the urgent needs of the people of Jingzhao.

Everyone near Chang'an knows that Feng Yi and Hedong have been stable and prosperous under the leadership of Tong Yuan in recent years. Sanfu and other places have experienced several crises, and they have repeatedly rescued the people from danger. Therefore, the people admired and praised Dong Bai and Tong Yuan.

This time, trade was resumed and production was encouraged, and the Hedong Shi clan and the Tianshui Shi clan all made a direct appearance. The Four Seas Merchant Gang has the highest trade volume, but it is relatively low-key, and even uses the name of the two nobles to cover up.

Doing so clearly has a special mission.

Even Zhang Lu and Feng Mou personally came to Chang'an, Huaili, Wugong, Chencang and other places to establish the Sihai Merchant Gang site, and absorbed the Haoqiang Ye family, who had been in close contact before, to participate in it, collect intelligence, serve business travel, and contact talents in various places.

The actions of the Four Seas Merchant Gang gradually gained the support of officials in Jingzhao and other places.

After Emperor Xian ran east and Chang'an was in turmoil, some scholars who did not leave here stepped forward and temporarily stabilized the situation.

Among them, there is Zhang Shi, who was born in Hedong, who served as Jing Zhaoyin.

Although this person was not sent by Tong Yuan, nor did he represent the most famous family in Hedong, he was serious and meticulous, and he became one of the officials from Hedong who was promoted faster.

After he took office, he reluctantly organized cultivation and maintained the harvest of 300,000 mu of farmland, although it was not enough to last until next year, but it was enough for the people to see next spring.

He has a good friend named Du Ji, whose name is Bohou. He was originally a native of Duling County, Jingzhao, born in a famous family, and when he was young, he served as the county magistrate of Zheng County and the governor of Hanzhong, and later encountered Dong Zhuo's rebellion and took his mother to Jingzhou for refuge.

Now that his mother is gone, he has returned to his homeland with the coffin for burial, and has been keeping filial piety at home since then. I don't want to encounter Li Guo's rebellion again, outside the jurisdiction of Jingzhao Tongyuan, the tenth room went to five or six, and the rest are also struggling on the edge of survival.

His friend Zhang Shi was ordered to take over the mess, and of course invited Du Ji to help. Du Ji was therefore recruited as Jingzhao Gongcao to assist Zhang Shi in dealing with the situation.

However, the former friends have become superiors and subordinates with huge levels of difference, and the Hedong Shi clan and the Jingzhao Shi clan are also unconvinced by each other, plus Zhang Shi is too serious, which makes it difficult for the two to cooperate.

Zhang Shi criticized Du Ji for "being broad and not helping to pay attention to things, being too wasteful and not doing good work." ”

Du Ji had to complain in private: "Although I can't be a good worker, I can definitely do a good job as the Taishou of Zhang Shi's hometown." ”

It just so happened that the Four Seas Merchant Gang had done a lot of useful things in the name of promoting business travel and protecting the people. Zhang Shi and the others were sluggish, thinking that their family was involved in Hedong, so they didn't want to think about the current situation, but Du Yi saw it at a glance.

As a famous family, the Du family has long heard that Weiyang Jun and Haoyang Hou are eclectic.

Du Ji himself became friends with the Hedong Shi clan, and often lamented that Feng Yi and Hedong had developed differently than before. Under his foresight, the Du family, as a famous Du family in Jingzhao, saw the courage of the Four Seas Merchant Gang, and felt that this was the time to show value and take the initiative to take refuge.

Unlike in history, Du Ji did not go to Hongnong, where the Son of Heaven temporarily lived, but joined the Four Seas Merchant Gang while serving in Jingzhao, assisting in the transfer and sale of materials in Hedong, and secretly assisting the Xinxi Liang Army in the layout of Jingzhao.

There is also a Jingzhao celebrity, called Wei Kang, the character general.

He was the son of Liangzhou Mu Weiduan, and at this time he was twenty years old and had already been born eight feet six inches tall. He was measured and ambitious, and was known for his benevolence. He is serving as the chief bookkeeper in Jingzhao County, and he can be regarded as a famous young talent in Chang'an.

And because of his father's guarding the frontier, Wellcome was different from most of the scholars.

He is highly concerned about side affairs and is keen on this aspect of knowledge, and is very concerned about people's livelihood and foreign affairs. It is precisely because of this that I secretly admire Dong Bai and Tong Yuan's efforts to recover and merge the state.

However, as a famous man in Jingzhao, of course he thought that the Chang'an Rebellion began with Dong Zhuo and the Xiliang Army, so he just admired it in his heart and would not take action to take the initiative to defect.

At this time, he was indignant because Li Xian and Li Bei had no administrative achievements, and he was also overjoyed when he heard that Feng Yi and Hedong were selling supplies.

I remember that his father told him that this border is different from Sanfu, the grain production is difficult, and the Han and Hu live together, and it is very challenging to govern. However, it is unimaginable that Dong Bai and Tong Yuan can not only guard and open up the frontier, but also continuously support the current situation with material resources.

With the mentality of wanting to understand Feng Yi, Hedong and other places, as well as the filial piety to help his father, he also took the initiative to contact the Four Seas Merchant Gang and gradually established a certain relationship.

Tong Yuan basically didn't know about this person in his previous life, so he didn't regard him as an important talent. Later, I learned from Zhang Lu and others that his ambition was to the frontier and the people, so he gradually paid attention to excavation.

In the past few years, although it is impossible for Dong Bai and Tong Yuan to make the vast majority of scholars understand and support them, their actions are like drops of water, and they gradually gather those "smart people" who are concerned about people's livelihood, contact with production, and have a little foresight.