Zhang Ming was very busy in Youzhou, so busy that Cai Yan and Zhang Ning had a child, and Zhang Ming just hurriedly went to take a look.

Cai Yan gave birth to a son, and Zhang Ning gave birth to a daughter.

This son and a daughter are complete.

However, Zhang Ming was busy everywhere and couldn't take care of them for the time being.

Zhang Ming asked the army to find a few places and directly open up a few villages.

In these newly built villages, there is still a lot of wasteland to be reclaimed.

Zhang Ming needs to allocate various tools and so on.

Many workshops in Liaodong are working day and night to create all kinds of farm tools.

There are a lot of displaced people, and they are still sent to Youzhou in batches.

A few days later, tens of thousands more were delivered.

The preparation in the early stage was insufficient, and Zhang Ming evaluated in the early stage that it would be good to be able to recruit 100,000 people, but the number has been rising.

Until now, Zhang Ming had to mobilize the army to do this kind of thing.

A large number of displaced people come in, and these displaced people can raise them for one year, and the next year they will be able to farm and support themselves.

After that, he can pay taxes to Zhang Ming, although the initial investment is a little larger, but in the long run, it is still very cost-effective.

200,000, and after a few days, the number of displaced people who had been resettled was about 200,000.

That's 200,000 people, which is very important.

The data is still increasing, but it has been delayed.

Although the number of displaced people has decreased, it is still flowing.

Zhang Ming was finally able to catch his breath.

It has been four months since Cao Cao started the war, and in these four months, Zhang Ming has a population of 200,000.

The war is still going on, and the population is still growing.

Zhang Ming couldn't calculate how much money he spent this time.

I'm afraid it won't be less than Cao Cao's military spending.

The homeless family wants a house, a year's worth of food, farm tools, seeds, and so on.

It's good to say that the land is a wasteland, and let them reclaim it themselves.

In this way, a family of displaced people needs hundreds of copper coins.

Of the 200,000 people, there are more than 10,000 households.

The most important thing is that this is still the cost of resettlement, counting the expenses spent on the road, mobilizing so many people to help also have to pay the wages, and after calculation, Zhang Ming has already spent more than 30 million yuan.

Unlike Cao Cao, Cao Cao will have a net loss unless he can occupy Xuzhou, while he has made an upfront investment, and these investments can be recovered.

The tax in Youzhou is not very light, and you need to pay 30% of the ground rent.

For the first three to five years, these newly recruited displaced people need to pay 50% of the tax.

However, this is also light for them, after all, the land is their own, and they only need to pay a share of the tax.

Youzhou's strength is increasing day by day.

When recruiting the displaced people, Zhang Ming was too busy, feeling that there was a shortage of manpower, and the mobilization forces were scattered.

"Tian Feng, Zhicai, immediately organize 50,000 militia in each county."

"What is a militia? Train when you are not working, gather when you need to gather, and go home to help when you are busy farming. ”

"The militia, which only pays a part of the military salary, is managed by the counties and counties, and sends retired soldiers to train and manage."

Xi Zhi immediately knew the meaning of doing this.

"My lord, once the war is tight, these militias can become regular troops at any time."

Zhang Ming is to prepare reserve soldiers for the main battle army.

"Yes, these militiamen put on armor, take weapons, train for another month, and they will be able to fight, and if it is really urgent, they will be directly issued weapons, and they can also go to the battlefield."

Tian Feng and Xi Zhicai both knew the meaning of the matter, so they immediately agreed to come down and do their best.

Zhang Ming's side is booming, while Xuzhou's side is vigorous.

Cao Cao attacked for a period of time and was unable to capture Xuzhou, so he could only surround it first.

In this way, it will definitely be protracted.

However, Cao Cao could not afford such a battle.

Cao Cao was extremely annoyed and called Guo Jia to ask Cheng Yu about the plan.

"Lord, we have calculated, I am afraid that within three months, we will not be able to take down Picheng." Guo Jia said.

For three months, Cao Cao's heart was gloomy.

"In this battle, we have exhausted all the borrowed money, and a lot of the money captured from the battlefield has also been spent."

Cao Cao sighed and said, "After all, I couldn't swallow it." ”

The problem is here, there is no way to swallow it in one bite, if their army withdraws at this time, then Xuzhou will take back the place that was lost before.

If he didn't retreat, Cao Cao knew that if the army was outside for a long time, something would inevitably happen.

"In this battle, I can't suffer losses, the price is too great, I plan to loot and bring back some of the population of Xuzhou."

Cao Cao planned to learn from Zhang Ming.

Cheng Yu was startled and said: "Lord, if the displaced people are not ready, I don't know how many people will die, and the cost is huge." ”

Cao Cao said: "I can see that this battle is completely fought by Zhang Mingbai, although I don't know how many people he received, but it is not under 100,000." ”

"100,000 people, in a few years, how much can it help."

"If there is no one in this city, what is the use of it, population is everything."

Cao Cao said very reasonably, the biggest beneficiary of this battle is Zhang Ming.

"Ang'er wrote that Zhang Ming spent a lot of money to resettle the displaced people, and he went to the field to investigate, Zhang Ming built them houses, gave them tools and seeds, and asked for thousands of dollars per household, which is really a big deal."

Cheng Yu was embarrassed because they were unprepared.

"In this battle, we can't get nothing, and if we continue like this, we will be weaker."

Cao Cao said: "Let's continue the encirclement first, and then let the rear start preparations, and start in a month." ”

Seeing that Cao Cao insisted on this, there was no need for any strategy in this battle, and Cheng Yu was sent back.

Cheng Yu left, and Cao Cao still surrounded Xiapi City.

However, he consumes every day.

Zhang Ming has been receiving displaced people.

The homeless people squeezed his money dry, and at the same time, Zhang Ming recruited 50,000 militiamen, although the food and salary were very small, but they did not give nothing, and they also needed a sum of money.

As a result, Youzhou's finances are tight.

Zhang Ming's treasury was about to run empty.

A large amount of gold and silver coins were spent.

"I can't do it without money."

Tian Feng has come to Zhang Ming twice in three days to ask for money.

Only two days later, Tian Feng came to Zhang Ming again to ask for money.

"My lord, now that I am moving from place to place, I can only make up a part of the money to use it urgently, and if I don't solve it, I will have no money in a few days."

Tian Feng, the general manager, has no money in his hand and has been in a hurry.

"I can't help it, I can sell everything I can sell, my belongings, whatever you can see, take it."

Zhang Ming has many ways to make money, but not so fast.

"Okay, then your glass, wine bottle, etc., are still worth a few dollars, and I'll take them all."

Tian Feng is really welcome, Zhang Ming's tea set for making tea, as well as wine glasses and bottles, this Tian Feng really started directly.

"Leave me some."

Zhang Ming didn't feel sorry for this thing, in his eyes, these were worthless goods.

But he had to put on a façade.

"Looks like we're going to have to get some money first."