Every county that Zhang Yu passed through would stop and investigate.

In Cao Cao's eyes, his actions were to wait for an opportunity, wait for his own action, and then create big trouble for him.

In fact, Zhang Yu didn't think so, but if it happened, he would definitely do it.

Ten days later, Zhang Yu arrived at the border of Xuzhou, but the entire Xuzhou had almost been defeated.

Zhang Yu didn't spend much effort to defeat the entire Xuzhou, because Xuzhou no longer had any support, and the people's hearts were disheartened.

However, there were many families and officials who wanted to take refuge in Cao Cao and let Cao Cao attack Xuzhou, but Cao Cao did not act in the end.

Zhang Yu easily took Xuzhou, and then led the army into Xuzhou.

The war in Xuzhou finally ended, and Cao Cao did not intervene directly in the end.

Zhang Yu's capture of Xuzhou is a major event, which marks that Zhang Yu has been opened from south to north.

The sea route has been opened, and now the land route has also been opened, which is a big deal.

The land route was opened, and the most exciting was of course the Jiangdong Foundation.

After Zhang Yu arrived in Xuzhou, many people from the Jiangdong Consortium had already inspected Xuzhou and traveled around Xuzhou.

Zhang Yu asked Xi Zhicai to start taking over the entire Xuzhou, so that he could understand the situation in the entire Xuzhou as soon as possible.

"I'm afraid the whole strategy is going to have to be adjusted." Zhang Yu looked at the map and said.

Now that the whole pattern has changed a lot, Zhang Yu also has to reorganize his soldiers and horses.

There are millions of soldiers and horses, and now the focus of defense is different, and Zhang Yu plans to reorganize.

"An additional 200,000 soldiers and horses must be reorganized." Expanding the army and laying new territory, Zhang Yu thought of expanding the army.

Zhang Yu calculated, and finally reorganized into 1.35 million soldiers and horses.

1.35 million is definitely a scary army, and at the same time, maintaining such a soldier every month also requires a huge amount of money.

Zhang Yu felt that the army should be reorganized, but how to get money was more important.

There are more than a million troops, and it costs a lot of money to maintain such an army.

Zhang Yu felt that at least half of the finances needed to be invested in the army, and with such a huge expenditure, if more money was not found, development would be much slower.

"Xuzhou and Qingzhou must be quickly integrated."

In the future, Xuzhou and Qingzhou will be the focus of defense, Zhang Yu plans to garrison 350,000 troops in Xuzhou and Qingzhou, 400,000 troops in Youzhou, and Jiangdong only needs 250,000.

Of course, there is a part of the army that can be drawn up at any time to attack other places.

Some important nodes need to have a standing army in place, and they are not needed anywhere else.

For example, after the integration of Youzhou, only 50,000 troops need to be garrisoned in Shenyang City, and a large area south of Shenyang City does not need garrisons, only some defenders need to maintain it.

This time to expand the army, Zhang Yu has to spend a lot of money, and it will also cost a lot of money to build Xuzhou, but now Zhang Yu is not afraid, there is a silver mine, although he borrowed money.

There are several ways to borrow money, one is to directly let the money bank print money, this can't be too much, it's no problem to get 20 million in the short term, he can fill the deficit as soon as possible.

The second is to find merchants and people to borrow money.

This also has to be operated through the money bank, this time Zhang Yu does not plan to come forward in person and leave it to his subordinates.

At present, the most important thing is to develop Xuzhou and Qingzhou.

In Xuzhou, Zhang Yu did not plan to build a city on a large scale, the entire strategic fulcrum of Xuzhou is Xiapi City, with Gao Shun here, there will be no problem in Picheng.

Zhang Yu will hoard grain and grass in Xuzhou City and then strengthen the city, the most important thing is that Xuzhou City is too close to Zhang Yu's territory, Jiangdong region, after crossing the Yangtze River, it is basically almost there.

You can support quickly, so you don't have to build a large city to fix the fulcrum.

For Xuzhou, Zhang Yu also has to move out some of the people, but the scale is not large, a total of hundreds of thousands of people.

Of course, the hundreds of thousands of people who moved out were sent to Fusang, which required a large number of Chinese people.

"It's a lot of confusion."

Zhang Yu felt that he had too many things to do.

There's a lot of stuff indeed.

Zhang Yu sorted out for a few days before he came up with a priority.

Zhang Yu sent a letter to Zhang Zhao, asking him to recover the money overseas as soon as possible, and at the same time mobilize more people to mine.

Mining, the fastest money, there are so many places overseas, there are many places to dig, Zhang Yu will not give up.

A few days later, the good news came, not that any mines had been discovered overseas, but that the fleet that went to Tianzhu Country had returned.

This time I went to hundreds of big ships, and when I came back, I made more than 40 million.

"It's too easy to make money, isn't it?"

Mainly Zhang Yu and they transported a large number of luxury goods in the past, and the nobles over there were quite rich.

Zhang Yu suddenly felt that he should communicate with Europe as soon as possible, and if he could sell luxury goods there, he would definitely make a lot of money.

But in the matter of navigation, Zhang Yu still chose to develop slowly.

Zhang Yu immediately allocated 10 million money for research and building more advanced ships, and another 30 million Zhang Yu allocated another 10 million to develop related industries, and the rest of Zhang Yu was taken away for military expenses.

A few days later, Zhang Zhao wrote again, according to his assessment, there should be more than 50 million after returning from overseas.

In this way, with the support of a large amount of money, many of Zhang Yu's plans can be carried out.

Expand the army, develop, and then gather strength again.

One of the advantages of controlling Xuzhou is that Zhang Yu completely controls Haiyan, and there were some people who secretly made salt on the seashore before, but now there is no way, Zhang Yu can completely control Haiyan.

Zhang Yu itself has a huge market, Qingzhou and Xuzhou originally had a large number of families operating salt, but now they have been driven away by Zhang Yu, and salt can only be operated by themselves.

Zhang Yu can continue to infiltrate into the hinterland, dump cheap sea salt, and slowly squeeze out other salt to unify the market.

Now Zhang Yu feels that if someone stops him, then he can start a war, and he can learn from the old beauty of later generations to start a war in order to hinder free trade.

In fact, there is no need to find any reason to start a war, but Zhang Yu needs a reason to target the family, otherwise it will easily cause a collective counterattack by the family.

Zhang Yu got the money, so he developed it slowly.

On the border of Jizhou, Zhang Yu arranged for 200,000 people to hold Cao Cao there, so that he could not successfully capture Jizhou.

At this time, the Jizhou War continued, and the Yuan family was somewhat unable to resist the Cao army, Cao Cao's strength was too strong, and it was no longer something that the Yuan family could resist today.

"This Yuan Xi even begged himself for help, thinking that I was appreciating his talent by letting him go?"

At the moment of Yuan Cao's war, this Yuan Xi actually asked for help from himself, and Zhang Yu was also speechless.

Zhang Yu didn't have any good intentions when he let Yuan Xi go.

"It's time to pay attention to the war in Jizhou."

Zhang Yu has been paying attention to the war in Jizhou, and has also sent 200,000 troops to intervene on the side, but he didn't pay much attention to it before, and Zhang Yu decided to pay attention to it.

(End of chapter)