The gates of Xiapi were closed.

Liu Bei did not wait for the news of welcoming him into the city, but Zhang Fei brought him an arrow tied with a silk silk.

"Big brother, this fell at the head of the city." Zhang Fei held the arrow in both hands and handed it to Liu Bei.

The silk tied to the shaft of the arrow had a quick black ink stlot, apparently a letter.

After taking the arrow, Liu Bei took off the silk silk.

As he began to browse, his face darkened.

"Big brother, what's wrong?" Seeing that his face was not good, Zhang Fei asked.

"Mi Zhu was detained." Liu Bei grimaced and handed him the letter.

After taking the letter and looking at it, Zhang Fei looked stunned: "How can this be?" ”

"Where am I going to get five thousand dollars?" Liu Bei said with annoyance: "Although Mi Zhu gave some funding earlier, they were all lost in Xuzhou, and later Cao Cao got it. Now I can't get any money......"

"Mi Zhu used to help the eldest brother." Guan Yu next to him reminded: "Although he has funded a lot, how can the Xuzhou Mi family only have so much wealth?" ”

"The two brothers are so ambitious to talk." Both of them were thinking about where to get the ransom, and Zhang Fei said: "What other strengths does Lu Bu have besides being good-looking? Give me some soldiers and horses, and I'll go into the city and rescue the people. ”

"Cao Cao's tens of thousands of troops failed to break through Xiapi at the beginning, so we have such a few people, how can we fight in?" Liu Bei said: "Lu Bu made it clear in his letter that as long as he sent five thousand hanging money to show his sincerity, he would release Mi Zhu and allow us to lead the army into the city to rest." ”

"Lu Bu is taking advantage of the fire to rob." Zhang Fei said with annoyance: "Big brother must not agree to him." ”

"The third brother is also very reckless." Guan Yu said: "If we stay outside the city, not only will we not have any benefit, but we will also harm Mi Zhu. Once the army entered Xiapi, with Lu Bu's few men and horses, how could he hold on? Winning Xiapi, not to mention 5,000 copper coins, the third brother can also let the wife of the Lu Bu family bathe in the water and paint on the spot. ”

"I'm afraid that Lu Bu won't let us enter the city even if he takes the money." Zhang Fei said: "In that case, we will lose a lot!" ”

"Zizhong and I have a deep affection, and he went to Xiapi on my orders." Liu Beiyi said solemnly: "Send the order down, find some horses to sell, and exchange copper coins for him." ”

Zhang Fei and Guan Yu were shocked when they heard this.

Guan Yu persuaded: "Big brother, there are not many war horses in our army, but you can't help it!" ”

"Is it important to have a war horse or is it important to Zizhong?" Liu Bei said with a cold face: "No one is allowed to obstruct it, and immediately raise war horses to sell." ”

Liu Bei's posture of anyone who persuaded him was to offend him.

Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are not easy to persuade again.

The order was given, and some of the soldiers recruited horses from the cavalry.

During the reign of Emperor Huan Ling, in order to satisfy the royal family's desire for luxury, the Han family increased coinage.

Due to the excessive coinage, the value of copper coins depreciated for a time.

The Yellow Turban Rebellion arose, and the villagers were recruited to quell the rebellion, and the coinage of the Han family was much slower.

The decrease in the number of copper coins circulating in the market, coupled with the emergence of a large number of displaced people in various places, has increased the purchasing power of copper coins.

However, with the spread of war, although copper coins are expensive, they are faced with the dilemma of having no price in many cases.

Especially the scarce materials such as war horses and grain, the price is even higher than that of the second emperor Huan Ling.

The war horses in Liu Bei's army are all Central Plains horse breeds.

The Central Plains horse breed is slightly taller than the southern horse, and has the blood of the northern horse, but it is not a good horse of the north.

In terms of running speed, they are a bit faster than southern horses.

In terms of climbing ability, they are much better than the northern horses.

On the other hand, the horses of the Central Plains are completely incomparable with the horses of the north and south.

The war horses in the army are all horse breeders, but in the eyes of the Central Plains heroes, as long as it is a horse, it can be put into the army to train cavalry.

For the Central Plains, where there was a serious shortage of cavalry, every horse was a rare wealth.

Five thousand soldiers, of which only three or four hundred cavalry.

The value of the Central Plains war horses is not high, and each horse can only be sold for five or six yuan.

Even if Liu Bei sold all the war horses, he wouldn't be able to make up the five thousand hanging money that Lu Bu wanted.

The soldiers were driving their horses together, and several generals ran over.

Greeting Liu Bei, one of them asked, "I heard that Uncle Huang is going to sell all the horses, I don't know why?" ”

The person who asked was Mi Zhu's brother Mi Fang.

Since Liu Xie gave Liu Bei the reputation of the Han family, he no longer let his subordinates call him the lord, but called him the emperor's uncle, in order to show the honor of his royal family.

Seeing that Mi Fang was coming, Liu Bei sighed, two lines of old tears rolled down his cheeks, and said guiltily: "I shouldn't have asked your brother to see Lu Bu." ”

"What's going on?" Feeling that something was wrong, Mi Fang hurriedly asked.

Liu Bei handed him the letter, then sighed and turned his face sideways, his expression even more sad than just now.

"Five thousand copper coins." After reading the letter, Mi Fang said: "I should do a lot of things, this is Xuzhou, and our Mi family still has some money." Although it is not much, there should be five thousand hangings. Please wait for two more days, and I'll get the money. ”

"Zizhong had subsidized me a lot earlier, why don't you ask for your Mi family's money again." Liu Bei waved his hand again and again.

"In order to rescue my brother, Uncle Huang even has to sell his war horse, is it possible that I will be stingy with a mere 5,000 copper coins?" Mi Fang replied: "War horses are very important to Uncle Huang, and the copper coins will come back sooner or later." Uncle Huang's great business is important, please allow me to go back and withdraw the money. ”

Liu Bei pretended to be very embarrassed and did not agree immediately.

Zhang Fei persuaded on the side: "Brother, Zifang is right, if the war horse is sold, where will we have cavalry in the future?" If there are no cavalry on the battlefield, they will be restrained everywhere. ”

"But I really can't take the Mi family's money anymore." Liu Bei is still refusing.

Mi Fang begged again: "Please Uncle Huang allow me to withdraw the money." ”

Zhang Fei and others persuaded each other, and Mi Fang repeatedly asked to go back to get the money.

Liu Bei hesitated for a moment, but finally nodded: "Even if I borrow it from the Mi family, I will definitely pay it back in the future." ”

"Thank you, Uncle Huang!" Liu Bei nodded, Mi Fang bowed, asked the soldiers for a few fast horses, and rode away with a few people.

At the same time, at the head of Pi City, Lu Bu saw a few fast horses walking away from a distance, and a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"It's definitely Mi Fang who is leaving." He said to Chen Gong on the side: "Liu Bei couldn't take out so much money, so he handed over the matter of taking the money to the Mi family. ”

"Who can Wen Hou see leaving?" The distance was so far away that Chen Gong couldn't tell who Pegasus was leaving.

Lu Bu pursed his lips: "The Mi family is a wealthy businessman in Xuzhou, they once funded Liu Bei, but it is impossible to disperse the family wealth. Mi Zhu was detained by me in Xiapi, and Liu Bei would definitely pretend to be rescued with all his might. Brother was detained, how could Mi Fang say nothing? If he doesn't go back and get the money, who else can pay for it? ”