After a banquet in the official pavilion, everyone happily returned to the lobby of Youzhou, here, a more extravagant feast has already been placed neatly, in the drum music, everyone sat down again to drink, and the atmosphere was extremely warm for a while, and such a courtesy made Liu Bei move tears ripples.

When he heard that Liu Bei took Zhang Fei and carried 5,000 men and horses into Fengyuankou, Lu Peng showed even more joy on his face, and didn't look at Liu Bei, who was a little embarrassed, and said directly to Mi Zhu: "I and Xuande Gong are drinking and talking here, how can I let my drunkard Yide brother look at it dumbfounded?" Please Mr. Mi Zhu immediately rectify the cattle and sheep of the three armies and send them to Fengyuankou. ”

Then he specially instructed Su Shuang: "I also want the second brother to break the fee and give me 50 jars of Xifeng wine." ”

Su Shuang smiled and said: "I don't feel distressed about this at all, anyway, 1/3 of the 50 jars are yours." As he spoke, the hall burst into laughter again.

Lu Peng's generous reward for the three armies made Liu Bei feel embarrassed and feel a little embarrassed, but now that he was eating Gongsun Zhan's meal, he was going to plan for Gongsun Zhan, so after thanking Lu Peng for his magnanimity for a while, he said Gongsun Zhan's next plan, and tentatively asked Lu Peng what he meant.

Lu Peng held the wine glass and said in a matter-of-fact manner: "My father-in-law, Lao Taishan, sent troops to fight against Yuan Shao, I, as a son-in-law, of course I have to send troops to help, now I have four counties and one country, a population of 3 million, more than two years of recuperation, although I have not recovered much, but there is no problem in recruiting 300,000 troops." ”

With this sonorous statement, Liu Bei almost scared off the wine glass in his hand at that time.

This is really afraid of something, what your father-in-law is afraid of is that you send troops to help, give him a false way to extinguish Yu, and then you will swallow the entire Youzhou.

At the same time, he was also shocked by Lu Peng's current strength, with a population of 3 million, according to the habits of the time, erecting a banner, and rectifying an army of 300,000 in a blink of an eye is definitely not crazy talk. 300,000 troops, why don't you eat Gongsun Chan without even bones left in the blink of an eye?

But now he really can't come up with any reason to stop Lu Peng from sending troops, because his uncle helped his father-in-law fight, which seems to be filial piety and a matter of course.

So the wine glass in his hand began to tremble, and the cold sweat on his head gurgled down, and he was shocked that not only did he not dissuade Lu Peng from sending troops, but he messed things up.

Just when he was frightened, Lu Peng put the wine glass on the table and sighed with a sad face: "As a son-in-law, it is natural and duty-bound to help my father-in-law. I also have difficulties. ”

Just this sentence immediately made Liu Bei feel the peak turn, and hurriedly climbed up the pole: "Mr.'s filial piety heart can be learned from the gods, but I don't know what difficulties you have?" ”

Lu Peng sighed: "I am now called Youzhou Mu, but the actual jurisdiction is four counties and one country, because of my policy of recuperation and recuperation, so that my jurisdiction is peaceful, due to the frequent wars in other places, people from all over the country have poured in, so that in a short period of time in the area under my jurisdiction, there are two million displaced people, these displaced people, there is no long thing to eat and drink, especially this is about spring ploughing, although I contracted to these people wasteland, but there is a lack of seeds to cultivate cattle." ”

When Liu Bei heard this, he thought about it in his heart at that time, and said: "There are so many displaced people, and they can't settle down well, it's a big hidden danger, since Mr. lacks seeds and cattle, I can immediately convey your difficulties to your father-in-law, now your father-in-law has taken control of the state, which is next to the Xianbei grassland, and there are many cattle producing, if you put forward a number, I will bring it back to your father-in-law and say, let him support you some, what do you think?" ”

Lu Peng said with a smile at the time: "This is very good, if there are ploughing cattle introduced, it can solve many of our spring ploughing problems, and when the time comes, I will also send out the army that I have in my hands now to help the displaced people in various places to stabilize cultivation and implement military cantonment." Then he said apologetically: "In this way, I can't send troops to help my father-in-law for the time being, and I hope that Xuande Gong will give an explanation, and after I finish the spring ploughing, I will settle these homeless people, and then I will send troops to help my father-in-law deal with Yuan Shao." ”

Liu Bei didn't expect Lu Peng to be so easy to speak, of course he couldn't ask for it, and promised again and again that he would explain Lu Peng's difficulties to Gongsun Zhan.

"I don't know how many ploughing cattle are needed here, sir?" Liu Bei tentatively asked Lu Peng's appetite.

At this time, this kind of thing can't be said by Lu Peng's mouth, because it has a very strong flavor of coercion, and the son-in-law wants to coerce the father-in-law.

Mi Zhu stood up as a matter of course, and after careful consideration, he said to Liu Bei: "We need a minimum of 50,000 ploughing cattle to barely solve our current difficulties." ”

As soon as these words came out, Liu Bei almost fell under the table, not only a lion opening his mouth, but a group of lions opening his mouth.

50,000 cattle, although not real cattle, in the interior of the Han Dynasty, each head costs 4,000 yuan, that is, 200 million yuan, although the grassland cattle, to become a ploughing cattle, still need training, but even so, at least two thousand dollars a head, calculated is also 100 million yuan, this is definitely a huge financial expenditure, I don't know if Gongsun Zhan is reluctant.

So after the guests and hosts were happy, Liu Bei hurriedly said goodbye to Lu Peng, hurried back to Gongsun Zan in Zhuo County, and reported the negotiation to Gongsun Zan .

Gongsun Zhan frowned, thought for a while, and said: "50,000 cattle, the way we exchange things in the grassland is only 500 yuan a head, so it is 25 million yuan, for the stability of my rear, in order for me to win Yizhou, I will give these cattle." Then he thought for a while: "But I can't let him slaughter me so for nothing, you go and tell Lu Peng, I want 100,000 stone of salt, of course, I will pay according to the normal price, if he can give me these salt, I will give him 50,000 cattle." ”

Now Lu Peng relies on the Wuhuan people in the grassland, and after the last battle in Yuyang, he and the Wuhuan people have formed a deep enmity, the materials on the grassland, especially the cattle, sheep and horses, have been unable to pass through the Wuhuan people, introduced into their own territory, open the trade route, it is not the time for the time being, especially now, Bandun wants to go south to take revenge, Lu Peng is also fighting hard to get the grassland to prevent future troubles, and it is even more difficult to obtain cattle, sheep and horses from the grassland.

After receiving Gongsun Zhan's assurance, Liu Bei rode a war horse again, ran back to Youzhou overnight, and told Lu Peng about Gongsun Zhan's conditions.