The alliance between Zhao Hui and Yuan Shu was not strong.

Yuan Shu's original idea was just to let Zhao Hui contain Yuan Shao, so that Yuan Shao had no time to take care of the south.

Although he provided food and grass to Zhao Hui, he did not give Zhao Hui for nothing.

Moreover, Yuan Shu himself can also get benefits, but he still has five warships in his hands that he wants from Zhao Hui.

And the most important thing Yuan Shu lacks is grain and grass.

But what Yuan Shu didn't expect was that Zhao Hui defeated Yuan Shao so easily.

Originally, last year, Yuan Shu wanted to cut off Zhao Hui's grain and grass and no longer sell grain and grass to Zhao Hui.

But there are still interests between the two sides, and Yuan Shu has been preparing to become the emperor.

Even if he didn't get Zhao Hui's support, Yuan Shu didn't want Zhao Hui to stand up against him.

is worried that if he cuts off Zhao Hui's grain and grass, he will tear his face with Zhao Hui.

Although Zhao Hui defeated Yuan Shao last year, Zhao Hui still did not occupy Jizhou after all.

But a month ago, Yuan Shu learned that the Zhao army had broken Yuncheng, Yuan Xi had taken refuge in Lu Bu, and Yuan Tan was now missing.

Jizhou was about to fall into the hands of Zhao Hui, and Yuan Shu finally couldn't sit still.

In the past, even though Zhao Hui had many fierce generals in his hands, Yuan Shu thought that his comprehensive strength was above Zhao Hui.

So he can cooperate with Zhao Hui and sell grain and grass to Zhao Hui.

But now with Zhao Hui occupying Jizhou, Zhao Hui's territory has completely surpassed Yuan Shu.

As long as Zhao Hui is given two years to recuperate, Zhao Hui's comprehensive strength will completely leap above Yuan Shu.

For Yuan Shu, who was about to become emperor, his strength was not the strongest, how could he endure it.

He had to cut off Zhao Hui's grain and grass to slow down Zhao Hui's development.

If it weren't for the grain and grass he provided, Zhao Hui would have almost consumed the grain and grass in the battle with Yuan Shao last year.

In this year's war, Zhao Hui had to collect grain and grass from ordinary people.

If it wasn't a last resort, Zhao Hui still didn't want to ask for food from the people.

The living standards of the people in Youzhou have just improved in the past two years, and Zhao Hui is unwilling to destroy them.

Although Yuan Shu cut off Zhao Hui's grain and grass, the tone of the letter to Zhao Hui was also very polite.

found a lot of excuses, saying that Yangzhou has been plagued by disasters this year, and he has no extra grain and grass in his hands.

Although Zhao Hui is in the north, whether there is a disaster in Yangzhou, Zhao Hui naturally knows in his heart.

Zhao Hui never thought that Yuan Shu would always provide him with food and grass.

Unless Yuan Shu is stupid.

"Lord, since Yuan Shu is unwilling to continue to provide grain and grass, then our plan must be advanced."

Guo Jia saw the secret letter sent by Yuan Zhi, in addition to the one written by Xu Shu himself, there was also a copy of Yuan Shu's.

"The current warship is still a little inferior in technology." Zhao Hui said.

Although Yangzhou has a lot of rice production, it is still a big gap compared to Jiaozhou.

It's nothing more than that the population of Jiaozhou is too small now, more than half of them are the descendants of the Han Dynasty who have been assigned to the past prisoners for hundreds of years.

Large tracts of fertile land, uncultivated.

The entire Jiaozhou has only a population of 500,000 today.

For the vast land of Jiaozhou, it is really insignificant.

With Jiaozhou's fertile land, it can feed at least five million people, ten times more than now.

But Jiaozhou is so remote that even if many people know that Jiaozhou is fertile, no one has the courage to go there.

Not to mention ordinary people, even people from the government, there are many people on the road.

Now in the shipyard in western Liaoning, a group of old masters and newcomers are studying new warships every day.

I want to build a warship that can accommodate more people.

I want to build a ship that can go into the deep sea.

And how to increase the speed of the warship.

Although the current warships can also reach Jiaozhou, the space of the warships is limited, and they can't carry too many people and can't transport too much grain and grass. Then there's the issue of speed.

From Youzhou to Jiaozhou, the distance has almost doubled.

It will take more time.

Transporting grain from Yangzhou and transporting grain to Jiaozhou, for Zhao Hui, the cost of all aspects has increased exponentially.

But that's all there is to it now.

Zhao Hui didn't want to completely tear his face with Yuan Shu now.

"What do you think now?" Zhao Hui said.

Since he was preparing to purchase grain and grass from Jiaozhou, Shixie was a point that Zhao Hui couldn't avoid.

Just like transporting grain and grass from Yangzhou, you can't get around Yuan Shu.

Shi Xie is the state pastor of Jiaozhou, and the Shi family has been in Jiaozhou for more than 100 years.

It can be described as deep-rooted.

It is different from other state pastors in Dahan.

The other state pastors of Dahan are almost all foreign.

Liu Yan entered Yizhou, Liu Biao entered Jingzhou, and Liu Yu went to Youzhou.

as well as Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, Cao Cao and others, they are all outsiders to Jizhou, Yanzhou, Yangzhou.

And Shixie is different, he is the pastor of Jiaozhou, and the Shi family is also the head snake of Jiaozhou.

He is a well-deserved soil emperor in Jiaozhou.

If Shi Xie disagrees, it will not be easy for Zhao Hui to get food from Jiaozhou.

It will be more difficult than secretly buying grain from Yangzhou.

Jiaozhou has a population of just over 500,000 people, and it is almost gathered in more than a dozen cities.

The rest of the vast places are deserted places.

Although it is located in a remote area, the living conditions of the people in Jiaozhou are much better than those in the Central Plains.

No matter how fierce the Central Plains fought against, there has always been no war in Jiaozhou.

In the Central Plains, the population has decreased sharply in recent years.

Zhao Hui's Youzhou, as well as Liu Biao's Jingzhou and Shixie's Jiaozhou, are among the few large states whose populations have increased instead of decreasing.

The increased population of Jingzhou and Youzhou is almost all homeless.

The increase in the population of Jiaozhou is the reproduction of the people of Jiaozhou themselves.

It's still too remote to be homeless, and the homeless people won't come to Jiaozhou.

Therefore, the population growth of Jiaozhou is still too slow.

Guo Jiadao: "I have been in contact with him, but he is not willing to cooperate with us. ”

"Is there any reason?"

Zhao Hui is not the grain and grass of Nashixie, but a normal purchase.

This is actually good for Shixie.

Jiaozhou can produce seven or eight million stone of grain and grass every year, and after deducting the rations needed by the people for a year, there will be a surplus of at least two or three million stone a year.

This is a huge number, enough to support Zhao Hui to fight a war of 300,000 people.

These grains and grasses remained in Shi Xie's hands, but they were just moldy and rotten.

Sold to Zhao Hui, Shi Xie himself can also get a sum of money, and Shi Xie can use this money to enhance his own strength.

Moreover, Zhao Hui is in Youzhou, thousands of miles away from Jiaozhou, and Shixie does not need to guard against Zhao Hui at all.

It is impossible for Zhao Hui to put his hand into Jiaozhou now.

"The Earth Emperor has been in office for a long time, and he just wants to guard his one-third of an acre of land, and he doesn't want anyone to intervene." Guo Jiadao.

Shixie doesn't have much ambition.

He has no ambition to dominate the world, but he also doesn't want foreign forces to intervene in his Jiaozhou.

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