Zhang Ming has been controlling Linzi City for a month.

For a month, he was in harmony with these families.

Zhang Ming paid them money with one hand and called salt with the other, and he didn't pit them at all.

This table salt was digested locally at the beginning, and the family made a lot of money.

The follow-up salt was delivered, and they have also begun to pave channels, and when the time comes, it will be sold to other states, and it can go to Yanzhou and Jizhou.

Although Qingzhou is relatively close to Xuzhou, the market in Xuzhou is completely controlled by the local salt merchants in Xuzhou.

This month, Zhang Ming and his team also transported back the first batch of more than 10,000 displaced people.

Zhang Ming asked Chen Yang to recruit him at a place outside the city.

At first, the recruitment process was slow, but after a month of preparation, the recruitment speed has been accelerated, and thousands of displaced people can be recruited in a day.

And this month, Gongsun Chan mobilized more troops to compete with Yuan Shao for territory.

The entire Qingzhou is already considered Gongsun Zhan's territory at this time, of course, this is what he thinks.

"Oh, interesting."

Zhang Ming received information that Gongsun Zan appointed Shan Jing as the assassin of Yanzhou, and at the same time was deceived by Yuan Shao and passed through Han Fu, the assassin of Jizhou.

And this Han Fu gave up the position of Jizhou Assassin to Yuan Shao.

In this way, Gongsun Chan was deceived and furious, so he led a large army to attack Yuan Shao.

Yuan Shao was afraid, so he gave up the Bohai Taishou to Gongsun Fan.

Yuan Shao had already begun to accumulate strength at this time, preparing to grab the territory.

Gongsun Chan was powerful and wanted to control the entire north.

At this time, he led a large army to deal with Yuan Shao.

At the same time, Yuan Shao stepped up his control of Qingzhou and Yanzhou, and in order to control these territories, he could recruit soldiers and horses from these places and collect money and taxes.

"Time is running out."

Zhang Ming knew that when Gongsun Chan freed his hand, he would definitely do it to himself at that time.

At this time, Zhang Ming had already replaced Guan Yu back, and let Xu Huang and Xi Zhi arrive in Linzi City.

At the same time, he changed his troops and horses every day, transferred back part of the cavalry, and then transferred back part of the infantry.

At the same time, he trained 10,000 defenders in Linzi City.

Everything is being prepared for the big battle.

It took another two months for Zhang Ming to figure out the matter of Linzi City.

At this time, there are ships coming and going every day, and some people and supplies can be brought back every day, and at the same time, Zhang Ming's soldiers and horses have been mobilized.

Zhang Ming used sporadic methods to secretly transfer 10,000 cavalry back to Liaodong to hide, and at the same time asked Xu Huang to take 10,000 soldiers and horses to defend Linzi City.

And Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun have been leaving Linzi and wandering outside.

It's not loitering, it's going around fighting bandits and so on.

In fact, there were no bandits around for a long time, they only trained outside the city, and at the same time often trained to run from afar.

It often appears in other places, and the unlucky bandits are also cleaned up.

During this period, Zhang Ming ran his first newspaper, which was a weekly newspaper.

In addition to introducing the major events that happened in various parts of Dahan, commenting on the characters of all parties, there are also poems written by Zhang Ming, and there are also two pages to introduce the football team.

In addition, Zhang Ming also introduced the customs and customs of Liaodong and so on.

The first newspaper, 10 pages long, cost 30 copper coins.

It was sold publicly in Liaodong, and in Qingzhou, Zhang Ming forcibly apportioned it and directly asked them to buy it.

All major families, all shops, must be bought.

At the same time, Zhang Ming also sold them a comparison table between the official script and the simplified Chinese characters, so that they could read the characters.

In Qingzhou, Zhang Ming's apportionment price was fifty copper coins.

It's only fifty copper coins, and everyone won't do anything with Zhang Ming, so they all bought Zhang Ming's newspaper.

Zhang Ming used this method to break even, and the first newspaper did not lose money.

Originally, these merchants and families were still unhappy, but after reading the newspaper, they all felt that it was worth it.

In this era, news is closed, and it is difficult to understand the big things outside, usually relying on people to spread the news, and waiting for the news to be received is a few months, or even a year or two.

And Zhang Ming has his own intelligence channels, which can quickly and timely send information to Liaodong.

At least, Zhang Ming's intelligence is relatively timely.

As soon as the newspaper came out, many merchants and families began to buy it.

However, to read the newspaper, they need to know simplified Chinese and buy a comparison table.

Zhang Ming didn't expect that this newspaper came out with a good circulation.

After another two months, Zhang Ming did quite a big job in Linzi City.

Starting from Linzi City every day, there are many people and things leading to the mouth of the Yellow River.

A large number of people come and go every day.

After a few months of development, Zhang Ming has brought back more than 90,000 people, as well as a large amount of money and food.

At this time, Gongsun Chan had already made it clear.

"Big brother, are you going to fight Liaodong?" When Gongsun Yue knew that Gongsun Chan was going to fight Liaodong, he was very happy.

Gongsun Chan nodded and said, "Now that we are strong, it's time to eradicate this scourge." ”

Gongsun Chan couldn't tolerate the presence of a large force in his rear.

Therefore, Gongsun Chan wants to solve Zhang Ming.

Gongsun Chan called some of his henchmen and began to plan.

"Zhang Ming doesn't have many troops in Liaodong, so we bypassed other places and directly attacked Xiangping City."

"On the other way, we ambushed around Linzi City, and when Zhang Ming was about to go north to rescue, we attacked halfway and wiped out his army in Linzi City."

Gongsun Chan believed that as long as the surprise attack was successful, then Zhang Ming's power would collapse.

Gongsun Chan is a man of action, and he immediately began to arrange.

First of all, he sent people to reconnoiter and reconnoiter the defense of Liaodong.

"Big brother, good news."

Gongsun Yue was in charge of these things for the time being, and after he investigated, he happily came to report.

"Big brother, this Zhang Ming basically has no defense in Liaodong, there are no people who even guard the city gate, there are very few defenders in the city, and the city gate is open all year round, we can send people in advance to do internal response."

Indeed, Zhang Ming arranged 3,000 people inside the city, and the rest trained outside the city.

At the same time, the matter of entering the city for inspection was also canceled by Zhang Ming, as long as a sentry was set up near the city gate.

If someone wants to get in, it's very easy because there is no inspection at all.

It makes sense for Zhang Ming to do this.

In the entire sphere of influence, Zhang Ming arranged a lot of spies, and the spies supervised various places, and it was basically impossible to surprise Liaodong.

When the enemy came, Zhang Ming could send the army into the city to defend without hurrying.

If the army doesn't usually defend the city, it will be able to spend more time training.

Gongsun Chan was also very happy after listening to the report.

"This Zhang Ming is really arrogant enough, and he is completely looking for death."

When Gongsun Chan knew that there were only 3,000 defenders in the city, and he could still send people to infiltrate, he began to act.

Gongsun Chan ordered a thousand people to mix in.

At the same time, he also began to mobilize troops.

The soldiers and horses were divided into two roads, one was to attack Xiangping City, and the other was to ambush Zhang Ming's army.

The task was assigned, and Gongsun Chan asked Gongsun Fan and Yan Gang to go to Qingzhou to prepare to ambush Zhang Ming's army.

And he personally led the army and prepared a surprise attack on Xiangping City.