So at present, it seems that Liu Bei's trouble is the real trouble of his henchmen.

And Cai Mao and Zhang Yun have thought about and discussed this matter. Before dawn, Mrs. Cai also sent someone to inform them, and they knew that Liu Biao had a dream last night and was pounced on by a tiger from the north.

Cai Mao had an idea in his heart, but his face showed a thoughtful look, and after waiting for a long time, until Liu Biao was a little impatient to wait, Cai Mao said: "Lord." The reason why Liu Bei's power has increased greatly is nothing more than Mi's wine. The lord of this wine also drank it, and also praised the sweetness. Jingzhou Haoqiangshi people are eager for this wine. If you want these heroes to be strong, the soldiers will quit drinking, and I am afraid it will not work. But the lord can control it. And the same is true of servants, slaves, horses, and grain. ”

"How to control it?" Liu Biao's eyes lit up and he couldn't wait to ask.

"Winemaking requires food, and after buying servants, slaves and maids, they also need food to provide for them. There is no need for the lord to speak publicly, Zhang Yun and I can hint that the grain merchants, scholars, and heroes in Jingzhou should not sell grain to Liu Bei. Those who violate, we naturally try to ruin people's homes. In the same way, it is not allowed to sell servants, slaves and maids to Liu Bei, and violators will also try to destroy the door. ”

"Although Liu Bei has wine, he has no grain to make wine. Although he had money, no one sold him grain, war horses, servants, slaves, and maidservants. Then Liu Bei is still a mountain dog, and he can't become a tiger and fight back against the master. ”

Cai Mao calmly bowed to Liu Biao. Without waiting for Liu Biao to speak, Zhang Yun, who knew everything Cai Mao was going to say, stroked his palms and smiled: "Cai Junshi is really a good plan, and he is really a salary drawer." Liu Bei has wine, and he can't afford to turn over the wind and waves. ”

"And because the two of us did it, we won't let the lord lose his benevolence." Immediately, Zhang Yun added.

These two slanderers really understood Liu Biao's thoughts, Liu Biao regarded Liu Bei as a tiger, but he was unwilling to use a hard knife and take care of his reputation.

So the two of them were soft knives, and the last time the grain was bad, this time it didn't need Liu Biao's order, and the two of them could do it.

Liu Biao was really overjoyed when he heard this, pulled his beard and said: "It is worthy of being my military advisor, good strategy, good strategy." Go ahead and do it now. ”

"No." Cai Mao and Zhang Yun agreed and left together.

"With a military advisor and a nephew to take care of, I can sit back and relax." After Cai Mao and Zhang Yun left, Liu Biao was still satisfied and scratched his beard.

Suddenly I felt hungry and my appetite opened.

"Come on, bring me another bowl of porridge." Liu Biao said to the entourage outside the door.

"No." The attendant answered, and hurried down.

Cai Mao and Zhang Yun did not go to do things immediately after leaving the Zhennan General's Mansion, but turned to Cai Mao's Mansion to sit down.

The Cai family is well-deserved as the number one family in Jingzhou, and Liu and Cai share the world. The Cai family's mansion is slightly smaller than Liu Biao's Zhennan General's Mansion, but it is luxurious.

After Cai Mao and Zhang Yun came to Cai's mansion, the two came to the study and asked the idlers to wait. After doing a good job, Zhang Yun said: "The idea of the military advisor is naturally excellent. But I'm afraid, Yin Guan, Ma Shot and others will not follow. ”

Cai Mao boasted in front of Liu Mian just now, Cai Mao and Zhang Yun can naturally restrain the ruling party officials, but they can't restrain Yin Guan, Ma Jie and other wild scholars and scholars.

Otherwise, there wouldn't be so many people running to Xinye.

As for the destruction of the door, it was only said that Liu Biao listened. Although the factions of the wild scholars and the ruling scholars are different, they break bones and connect tendons, and there are many mutual in-laws, and it is impossible to destroy the door.

"Leave those people alone. We only need to restrain the officials, the scholars and scholars who are of the same heart as us, and severely crack down on those merchants who have no background, and we can cut most of Liu Bei's income. We don't need to plug the water, we just need to build dikes and make the big rivers into small streams. Cai Mao Zhizhu is in her hand, very calm.

"I see." Zhang Yun nodded, and then said, "Then let's go our separate ways." Spread the word. ”

"Okay." Cai Mao nodded, and then the two parted again. Soon Jingzhou itself came out with such news.

It is not allowed to sell grain, horses, servants, slaves and maids to Liu Bei, otherwise it will be against Cai Mao and Zhang Yun.

You are not allowed to go to Xinye to buy wine and drink, otherwise you will not only be against Cai Mao and Zhang Yun, but also sorry for the lord.

Winemaking is to spend grain, at present, Jingzhou is short of grain, it is better to have food than to give it to the lord, winemaking is pure waste.

To use a modern example, large countries block the trade of small countries.

Trap you.

High, it's really a good move. Loss, it is really yin loss.

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There are more than a dozen helpers under Liu Bei's command, except for Sun Gan, Jian Yong, Mi Zhu, Mi Fang and other helpers recorded in the history books, the rest are unknown.

But that doesn't mean they're completely useless. can be valued by Liu Bei, and the helpers who eat under Liu Bei's hands at least have excellent places, or can speak well, or look good, or have outstanding knowledge.

All in all, although it is a help, it will be somewhat useful. Among them, perhaps after the founding of the Shu Han Dynasty, some people did Taishou and county orders, but they were not recorded by history.

Wang Xue is one of them.

Wang Xue is a native of Yuzhou, and when Liu Bei was named the assassin of Yuzhou, he defected to Liu Bei, and then followed Liu Bei until he went south to Xinye.

In terms of qualifications, Wang Xue is second only to Sun Qian, Mi Zhu, and Jian Yong.

Wang Xue's appearance is not outstanding, but he can speak well and excel in arithmetic, so Liu Bei sent people south to Jingzhou to buy servants and slaves, and Wang Xue was one of them.

Wang Xue was in charge of Gangneung Fortress.

Jiangling is an important city in Jingzhou, and its prosperity may still be above Xiangyang. There are many families here, wandering scholars from the north, local scholars from the south, wealthy merchants and so on.

Human trafficking has always existed in the Han Dynasty.

Slaves and servants, servants and servants, are the private property of a family. And the slave maid, the child born to the servant, is also the slave and the servant.

Jingzhou claims to have a million household registrations, but perhaps the actual population will be even more. Because these slaves and servants are not recorded in the official population register.

You don't have to be a soldier, you don't have to serve as a conscript, you just shine for your family.

And slaves and maids give birth to slaves and maids, and when there are more slaves and maids, buying and selling becomes inevitable. Or some people will sell their slaves and maids if they fall into the middle of the road.

The slave and maid business has always existed in the Han Dynasty. Liu Bei is currently buying servants and slaves on a large scale, which has led to a steady rise in prices, which has caused a lot of impact on this industry.

But Wang Xue can still buy a lot of slaves and servants, because the total number of slaves and servants in the entire Jingzhou is very huge.

Liu Bei only bought one or two hundred thousand at best, which was a very small part of it.

But since that day, no one has sold slaves and maids to Wang Xue.