Liu Ping finally persuaded the puzzled Cao Ang to go back, anyway, he told him that he didn't understand, just be honest as the owner.

Besides, he should be very busy at this time, because Liu Ping knew that Cao Cao was preparing to attack Xuzhou.

Previously, Cao Cao had already reported to the world that Tao Qian had intercepted and killed his father, and the momentum had been built up, and if he did not attack with troops, he would definitely be laughed at by the world.

More importantly, Cao Cao's military salary was only enough to last for three months, and he had to capture Xuzhou within three months and loot the money to pay the military salary.

This is the fate of the princes in the melee, if you want to make a difference in this troubled era, the speed of relying on internal affairs to raise troops is far from enough, the only way is to keep attacking, grabbing territory, grabbing population, and grabbing money.

However, although Cao Cao was determined to fight Xuzhou, he had troubles......

In the study room of the Assassin's Office, there are only Cao Cao and Cheng Yu.

"If we can take down this Le'an County first, and then attack Xuzhou, it will be much easier and safer for us to do so." Cao Cao punched a heavy fist at a location called Le'an County on the map, and let out a long sigh.

This Le'an County borders Yanzhou in the north, and further north of it is the sea, which was guarded by Gongsun Zhan's general Tian Kai at this time.

However, now Yuan Shao occupies Hebei and Hebei and Erzhou, and is expanding rapidly, and has divided Gongsun Zhan's territory into two, and this Le'an County has actually become an isolated city.

Everyone knows that the front battle is the most taboo and the rear is unstable, although this Tian Kai has no threat, I am afraid that Yuan Shao will take the opportunity to take it, and send troops east to take Qingzhou, then Cao Cao will have to face Yuan Shao, a behemoth.

In fact, the real historical trend is exactly like this, Yuan Shao first took Le'an County, used it as a springboard to attack Qingzhou, and defeated Gongsun Zan to obtain Youzhou, so he occupied the land of Hebei Qingyou and the four states.

Although this Le'an County is not big, it is a key node!

Cheng Yu sighed and said: "From the current point of view, it is indeed the safest to take Le'an County first, as long as we take this county, we can avoid worries when we attack Xuzhou, and secondly, we will cut off the north and south of the land of Qilu, and there is no hope of going west to the land of Qingzhou and Beihai in the east, and the entire Qilu will fall into my hands sooner or later." ”

He paused and said: "It's just that Le'an County has been attacked by Yuan Shao for several months, and it has not been captured, which shows that this Tian Kai is not a general, if we attack again, even if we can capture it, it will inevitably lose a lot, so that the attack on Xuzhou will be postponed." ”

Cheng Yu knew that his family background was already poor and crazy, and at this time, he could only fight where he had money and food, and he had no spare energy to consider the overall strategic situation.

Cao Cao picked up a secret letter in his hand, looked at it and put it down, it was a secret letter sent to him by Tian Kai, the general of Le'an, saying that as long as he could pay 20 million yuan to pay military salaries, Tian Kai would give Le'an County both hands.

20 million yuan, it's just a joke, he Cao is also very poor, this conditional letter is the same whether it comes or not, and he can't afford it anyway.

Cao Cao shook his head and smiled bitterly, this Le'an County is like a piece of fatty meat, he wants to eat it, he must eat it, but he has no ability to eat it, so he can only watch it fall into Yuan Shao's hands.

Tian Kai had no reinforcements, and Yuan Shao's soldiers were many generals and strong, so he could capture the city sooner or later, and then march east to take the land of Qingzhou.

In the end, it's all his fault......

……

After the silkworm room was built, Liu Ping asked the housekeeper to pay money from Cao Ang to buy silkworms.

At this time, it is the end of the year of silkworm raising, and the silkworms are almost sold for money, almost the same as picking them up for nothing, and they don't cost a few dollars, after all, if they don't sell, they will freeze to death in two days.

After Ling'e and the others went to see the silkworm room, they were so shocked that their eyes were about to fall to the ground.

Is the master going to burn charcoal to roast the silkworm room hot?

How can there be such a method of raising silkworms?

In this era, charcoal was very expensive, and only large households could afford to burn it, and ordinary farmers could only resist it in winter.

But the big master of this grain is going to burn charcoal to raise silkworms, so that the silkworms may not freeze to death, but the silk silk woven is probably not even enough charcoal money.

How can such a stupid thing be done?

Ling'e wanted to admonish, but stopped after thinking about it.

In the past few days, they have been talking a lot in private, speaking of which, although each of their girls is not a country and a city, they can be regarded as a small jasper, and they all have a middle-class appearance.

But why can't the master look down on any of them?

I think there is only one reason, the master thinks that their status is too low, and he doesn't take them seriously at all, and it is not uncommon for them to sleep.

Thinking of this, the inferiority complex rises in the hearts of each of them.

Yes, he is a high master, he doesn't want to catch up with him, in his eyes, I'm afraid he is just an ordinary subordinate.

Ling'e thought about it, at this time, don't be bored, the master doesn't believe in himself, since he has money, he can toss as much as he wants, just do his own duty, why bother himself?

Although the girls were depressed, they still entered the silkworm room and took care of the silkworm seeds.

Although Ling'e couldn't understand the silkworm scripture, she still did what she said above, and she didn't have the courage to make her own decisions.

……

Everything is going on in an orderly manner, and the next thing that worries Liu Ping is mulberry leaves.

He raised so many silkworm seeds, and he will need a lot of mulberry leaves in the future, and with his method of breeding, this silkworm should eat more, and the mulberry leaves needed should be an astronomical amount, and the mulberry supply in Shanyang County alone is far from enough.

He could only go to Cao Cao for help, and asked him to order the transfer of mulberry leaves from other counties.

But when Cao Cao heard that he was raising silkworms, he couldn't help laughing: "Ping'er, how much money can you make from raising silkworms?" It's okay for ordinary peasant women to raise them to supplement their families, but you are a lieutenant general, and a big man should worry about military and political affairs. ”

He remembered that when he investigated and dealt with the original owner of the mansion, he had confiscated all the stolen money in his mansion, so he asked: "Is there no money in the mansion, and this is not easy to do?" Let Mr. Cheng allocate 100,000 yuan to deal with your application first, and don't worry about these details anymore. ”

After speaking, he lowered his head and looked at the official document intently.

Cheng Yu, who was sitting next to him, felt a toothache, and now he is short of money, but the reward for making Jun is 100,000, which shows that Junjun is really unusual to this prince.

Cao Cao refused to help, in the final analysis, he still felt that Liu Ping was making a small fuss and couldn't get on the stage, Liu Ping felt that he couldn't come up with evidence that convinced Cao Cao.

After all, Liu Ping's blueprint is in his head, and he can't tell Cao Cao Ming that this is the experience summed up by later generations, and it is by no means a small fight, and it can definitely make a lot of money.

Since he couldn't get help from Cao Cao, he could only go to Cao Ang again.

As soon as he heard his intentions, Cao Ang frowned: "Let the counties send people to pick mulberry leaves?" Since even my father didn't agree, the foolish brother didn't dare to make his own decisions. ”

Although he was the eldest prince, he was only a military general, and he did not have the authority to manage the magistrates, and he could not assign labor to the counties.

Liu Ping was speechless after hearing this, but since he had purchased so many silkworm seeds, he couldn't watch starving to death.

Unless you don't use his methods and breed according to the process of this era, then what's the point of him raising it?

And if he has more charcoal burning process, I am afraid that he will really lose all his money, as Ling'e said, the silk silk woven is not even enough charcoal money.