Yangzhou was a wealthy place, and they had plenty of money thanks to trade and abundant products. Yuan Shu saw such a point and held an important position there.

However, there seem to be some shortcomings in wealthy places, such as the combat ability of soldiers, the command of military generals, and related combat capabilities. These are extremely unfavorable to Yuan Shu, who has a certain ambition.

This incident caused Yuan Shu a lot of trouble. He wants to do a big business, but some things are completely different from what he thinks, what to do, he thought of a way, this way is to obtain a greater degree of favorable development, for example, how to develop a more favorable degree.

The first emperor's new army in the West Garden gave Yuan Shu a great reference. weapons, he can use the advantage of weapons to expand such a point, at a time when the armed forces in various places are constantly expanding the number of elite soldiers. No one has made too high a demand for weapons, because most of them are concentrated on cold weapons, which are inexpensive and easy to manufacture. You can be satisfied.

Firearms are too expensive in comparison, and they require ammunition, and the price of one round of ammunition is too expensive, and it is extremely uneconomical, and there are many disadvantages, and no one will buy a firearm. In fact, it is the way of thinking of people, most of their understanding of firearms is not very clear, in their opinion, firearms, just a weapon, nothing more. In this regard, many people expressed extreme helplessness.

But Yuan Shu is different, he is completely different from his brother, he thinks that firearms can make up for his shortcomings, Yangzhou is a place where fighting is really not too good. But now, weapons can make up for such a shortcoming, and he just needs to have weapons.

Firearms can make up for the lack of combat effectiveness, which can greatly meet his needs. Another important need is that he is not short of money, Yangzhou is a rich land, it is unlikely to lack money.

Despite the high cost of firearms, money is really not an issue. Therefore, it is easy to find the Republican Army in this matter. It was easy and easy for them to negotiate the purchase of firearms.

"But this is very bad for us, and the other party obviously left the transportation to us. But how do we transship? Shang Wu asked, and found the place of Yangzhou on the map, although it was only a very ordinary map, ordinary. It just means a place like Yangzhou, what the specific city is like, Shangwu can't know at all, population, wealth, and only roughly know some things.

"Well, we can't transport it directly, and we need a few counties in between. Even if it's chaos, we don't have a lot of opportunities. Even in the past, the profits in the middle would be eaten up a lot, much better. Arms orders are a good thing for us, but we can't get the real benefits. Shang Wu said.

Businessmen need the protection of some officials, otherwise, they can only be small businessmen, and it is difficult for them to have the opportunity to expand to a larger area.

"How's the smuggling?" Shangwu asked.

"Yes, but the amount of smuggling cannot meet such a large demand. You know. Our smuggling is very small, and we need to open the protection of many officials along the way, without which it is simply impossible to do such a thing. The only thing to rely on is Dong Zhuo, he controls Luoyang, he can control the traffic in many places, you must know that the location of Luoyang is very special. He was almost at an important crossroads. Jia Xu said to Shang Wu.

Shangwu is also very clear that the importance of Luoyang is not only the capital of the Eastern Han Empire, but most importantly, his economic position is very important, east, west, north and south, he can reach the place he wants, control here, basically can easily open the gap, this is an important place that Shangwu is concerned about, without these, it is basically difficult for him to open such a place.

"Luoyang is so important to us. If we can't do that, it's a big disaster for us. Jia Xu said.

This situation is very disturbing for Shangwu, it is really true, the military industry of the Republican Army is based on war, unless the Republican Army continues to wage war, otherwise, it will be difficult to feed so many enterprises, and the burden must be very large. If you do that. Shang Wu can only put his hope on the demand for foreign arms trade.

Now, here's your chance. And it was hard to have such an opportunity, but unfortunately, they couldn't eat it, or they finally ate it. But the damn traffic line is not in his hands, and in order to eat this order, they have to spend most of the profits of the order on transportation costs. And many of them can be opened. Such an order is not to eat.

Eating is a good thing for the military industry, but the question is, what about transportation, which will inevitably lead to a catastrophic consequence in the end, that is, most of their orders are unlikely to make money. Even, at a loss. This puts Shangwu in a dilemma.

This is a really big problem for us. Shang Wu said helplessly.

"Perhaps, we can rely on Dong Zhuo's strength to do such a thing." Jia Xu continued.

"If that's the case, we will be greatly restricted by Dong Zhuo. That's not a good thing for us either. Shang Wu shook his head and said.

"Well, that's true. It seems that the importance of seeking Luoyang is very great. Jia Xu said.

"The most important thing is that we need a complete Luoyang, and if we rebuild it, it will cost more, which will be even more difficult for us." Shang Wu said. Jia Xu nodded in agreement with this point, because there are indeed a lot of factors in it, the biggest significance of the republican army's quest for Luoyang is not politics, but the economy, Luoyang is at an important crossroads, and it is extremely important to open the north-south and east-west passages. And the reason why the Republican Army seeks to capture Luoyang is an important point. After all, if you win here, you can expand the market on a larger scale. The benefits to the IRA are endless.

Luoyang. Outside the city. Dong Zhuo took a group of his generals to inspect the situation of the Luoyang defense line.

A large number of soldiers were recruited and trenches were dug. Prevent the state soldiers from approaching, because Dong Zhuo learned one thing from Cao Cao's infantry battalion, that is, defending on the city wall is far less easy than digging a trench. And Dong Zhuo only regarded the defense of the city wall as the last means of defense. But outside the city, building more defensive positions can increase security on a larger scale.

"My lord, our army has established three lines of defense outside Luoyang City. Each line of defense was spaced less than fifteen miles apart. Our army can resist the attack of the state army to a great extent. Ushisuke said. He is Dong Zhuo's son-in-law and confidant. Given him such a line of defense, Dong Zhuo is absolutely assured.

"The defense line must be fast, and we must prevent the rapid breakthrough of the state troops." Dong Zhuo said.

"What the lord said is that we have resolutely defended. In order to build a defensive line faster, we recruited some people in the city to participate, and the speed of excavation was greatly accelerated. Niu Fu said.

Dong Zhuo looked at it and nodded with satisfaction, expressing his great agreement with this point.

In order to establish three lines of defense, Niu Fu spent a lot of effort. However, if you let your soldiers dig it, the current strength in Dong Zhuo's hands is less than 15,000 people, in addition to the loss part, he also accepted a part of the troops in Luoyang City, such as the Yulin Army, and the previous general and so on. All of this increased the size of his forces.

However, to build a defensive line, it takes more energy to do such a thing, and the physical strength of the soldiers is a big problem. Considering that the soldiers also had to face the attack of the soldiers, in order to save their physical strength. Niu Fu's only way was to recruit a large number of people in Luoyang City to dig trenches. Establish three lines of defense.

Dong Zhuo doesn't have much sympathy for the people of Luoyang. For a while, many people in Luoyang City were driven here to dig, and they could only get one porridge a day. Even, there is no porridge. Because there is not much military ration to provide them. A lot of people come here hungry. They are just some civilians, petty traders. In such a situation, they can only consider themselves unlucky.

"Lord, telegram from the Republican Army." Li Dao stepped forward at this time and said.

Dong Zhuo took the telegram and looked at it.

"The appetite of this IRA is growing. This is a difficult problem for us to deal with. Dong Zhuo said embarrassedly.

"But my lord, we need more money, food, and ammunition, especially at this special time. If we don't have the support of the Republican Army, we won't be able to defeat the soldiers. Li Wei said worriedly.

Dong Zhuojun's logistical supply was not very favorable. Because they leave supplies to the IRA to deal with, it is easy for the IRA to do things on such a thing.

"Promise them that I will give them the land of the West River. Let them do business, for the garrison. Dong Zhuo thought about it.

It seems unlikely that the Republican Army will attack Guanzhong on a large scale. Because Guanzhong is unlikely to get more benefits.

The amount of money he owes to the Republican Army is terrifying, and if the occupation of Guanzhong can solve such a problem, it can be occupied. The IRA would not do such a thing without seeing the benefits. Think about it. Dong Zhuo felt that he should not garrison troops on the West River, and now he did not have such extra troops to deal with it. The state soldiers are his henchmen.

"Concentrate your forces and deal with the state soldiers." Dong Zhuo said.