Cai Mansion, Cai Yan carefully held the piece of paper in his hand, caring for it like a child, and a soft flush flashed on his face.

"I knew that Brother Zihong would not forget others"

At this time, Cai Yong walked over, took advantage of Cai Yan's inattention, took the piece of paper in her hand, looked at it, her eyes lit up, and she couldn't help but read it out:

"As soon as the golden wind and jade dew meet, they will win but if the countless two lovers in the world are long, how can they be in the morning and twilight."

"Good poetry!" (There were no words at that time)

Cai Yong couldn't help but praise.

"Daddy"

Cai Yan snatched the paper, turned around and ran away in shame.

It turned out that after Qi Zhou and Tian Chou went to the Jinluan Palace, they went to Cai's mansion, mainly because Liu Yuan asked them to hand over a love letter to Cai Yan, and the other was to say hello to Cai Yong on behalf of Liu Yuan.

At this time, Qi and Tian were in the secret room of the Hero Building with Liu Yi.

"Mr. Liu, my lord asked me to pass on a letter to Mr." Tian Chou took out a well-sealed letter from his arms and handed it to Liu Yi, but he had some doubts in his heart. This Liu Yi is at the helm of Huaxia Commercial Bank, how can the lord know him? Tian Chou thought about it, but the lord wanted to cooperate with Huaxia Commercial Bank, so he suppressed his doubts in his heart.

Liu Yi opened the letter, looked at it carefully, and after a while, he put it away and said to Tian Chou: "Lord Tian and inform Lord Taishou that I know his requirements and will definitely do them, just rest assured." ”

It turned out that Liu Yuan's letter said, one of them was to ask Liu Yi to secretly transfer the headquarters of Huaxia and Zhongyuan No. 2 Commercial Banks to Yuyang, and Luoyang only left an empty shell to hide people's eyes and ears.

Second, vigorously purchase all kinds of civilian and military materials and quietly transfer them to Yuyang.

Third, hire all kinds of craftsmen at a large price and send them to Yuyang.

Fourth, secretly collect displaced people and send them to Yuyang.

According to Liu Yuan's idea, Yuyang will be his base camp from now on, and he should try his best to increase his war potential.

The first is population. The larger the population and the wider the source of troops, the deeper the war potential. The more people there are, the deeper the economic potential and the faster it develops. So where does the population come from? First, Liu Yuan had a policy of encouraging and rewarding childbirth in the Yuyang decree. But it's not enough, it's not enough. Yuyang is located in northern Xinjiang, the population is not much, the base is too small, it is ten or twenty years, no matter how relaxed the policy is, it is difficult to reach the population density of Jizhou, Qingzhou, Xuzhou and other places.

However, the natural population growth is too slow, which does not mean that the total number of people in Yuyang cannot be increased. The Han Dynasty has many natural disasters, political axes [***], and there are poor and displaced people everywhere. As long as they are obtained, Yuyang will take off.

The second is resources, especially grain and grass. Yuyang has just passed the crisis and is in a critical stage of development, and all kinds of materials are in short supply. If Liu Yuan wants to recruit the displaced people, he needs grain and grass to feed them until they can really live in peace and produce their own products. If it is 50,000, it can barely support it, but if it is hundreds of thousands, 100,000, then the consumption of grain and grass is simply astronomical! Therefore, Liu Yuan asked the two major commercial houses to do their best to purchase grain and grass.

Third, talents. Whether it is the construction of cities, the construction of gallop roads, the excavation of water conservancy facilities, the forging of agricultural equipment, military armor, all are inseparable from such professional and technical personnel. However, the status of this kind of talent in Dahan is very low, and it is relatively easy to recruit.

What makes Liu Yuan most embarrassed is that he is a scholar who is knowledgeable and knowledgeable. Most of these people are low-eyed people, and letting them go to a bitter cold place like Yuyang is even more sad than killing them. But what Yuyang lacks the most is also them. Liu Yuan wanted to run a school and open up the wisdom of the people, but he suffered from a teacher who did not teach, so he had to delay this plan.

Qi Zhou and Tian Chou spent a lot of money and gifts for several days in a row, and after visiting the eunuch Zhang Rang, the general He Jin and other important figures in the court, they also resigned from Liu Yi and others and went straight to Yingchuan.

Why go to Yingchuan? It turned out that Liu Yuan confessed to the two, and one took the whole village to settle in Yuyang; The second is for the sake of good wheat seeds.

At the beginning, Liu Yuan spent a few years and worked hard to cross relatively excellent wheat seeds, and the yield was several times higher than the best wheat varieties of this era. As long as this kind of wheat seed is used in Yuyang, Liu Yuan believes that in a few years, the grain and grass reserves of the entire Yuyang will definitely rank first in the Han Dynasty!

The two led 2,000 foot soldiers and walked all the way, but in just a few days, they arrived at Yingchuan. After searching in the mountains for two or three days, he found Liu Yuan's secluded mountain village.

"Who are you! How did you come to our village? ”

At this time, the teenagers in the village were practicing martial arts in the field outside the village, and suddenly found this uninvited guest, hurriedly ran back to the village, pulled up the suspension bridge, and closed the gate. At this time, he was standing on the cement wall several feet high, holding a bow and arrow blade, questioning Qi Zhou and Tian Chou.

Qi Zhou, dressed in armor, took a few steps forward, arched his hand, and asked, "This is Liu Yuan and Liu Zihong's hometown?" ”

"Brother Yuan?" The young man's eyes tightened, and he said, "Who are you, how do you know Brother Yuan?" ”

When Qi Zhou heard this, he knew that he had found the right place, and he hurriedly glanced at Tian Chou, who was able to speak well.

Tian Chou smiled, looked at the young man on the city wall, and said, "We are soldiers under the command of Lord Yuyang Taishou, and we have important things to do here." ”

"Yuyang?" An old man walked out from behind the young man on the city wall, and the old man wondered: "Yuyang is located in the northern Xinjiang, so it is to do business, how can you come to our village?" ”

"Dare to ask who the old gentleman is?"

"I am the village leader of this village, and my surname is Wang."

"It turned out to be Old Man Wang!" Tian Chou bowed and said: "Old man Wang doesn't know, my family Yuyang Taishou surname Liu Mingyuan, the word Zihong, the younger generation came here on the order of the lord." ”

"What did you say?" Old man Wang was afraid that he had heard it wrong, so he stretched out his hand and plucked out his ears and said, "You said that the kid of the Liu family is Yuyang Taishou?" Did I hear me right? ”

"The old man heard it right, the justice of my family master is Liu Yuan. Otherwise, how could we find here? ”

"What evidence do you have?" The old man is also a cautious person, so naturally he will not easily believe the words of strangers.

"Please look," Tian Chou took out a roll of bamboo slips from his bosom and said, "You can ask the old lady to come and identify it." ”

At this time, Liu's mother also arrived on the city wall, and when she saw the bamboo slip in the young man's hand, she believed it in her heart.

"Hang the bamboo slips up." As he spoke, a bamboo basket was hung from the city wall, and Tian Chou stepped forward and put the bamboo slips in the basket.

Mother Liu took out the bamboo slips from the basket, opened them, and knew that they were indeed genuine, so she believed Tian Kai and said: "In this case, you two can enter the village, but others can't." ”

When Qi Zhou and Tian Chou entered the village, they looked at it, and the scene of the entire village almost made them think that they were in a dream!

The neat red brick houses, the wide avenues paved with bluestone, that scene, I have never seen it at all, and I have never even thought about it. Outside the village, when the two of them saw the three-zhang high city wall, they were amazed in their hearts - who would have thought that there would be such a fortress in such a mountain? But after entering the village, I realized that it was just the tip of the iceberg.

Most of the people in the village are old people, teenagers and women, but its prosperity and peace are many times higher than that of Luoyang.

Muramasa's house.

"Tian Chou, Qi Zhou, meet the old lady." The two first worshiped Liu's mother, and then they said the true meaning of coming this time.

"You're saying that Yuan'er wants to move the entire village to Yuyang?" Mother Liu's brows furrowed, and she was unwilling. This is her hometown, and the Han people have always loved their families, especially reluctant to move, but the life here is stable, like a paradise?!

"Yes, old lady." Tian Chou said: "Before coming, the lord once confessed, saying that Yuyang was busy with things, and there was no chance to go home to visit the old lady and the old folks in a short time. ”

"Well," Old Man Wang nodded and said, "Daughter-in-law of the Liu family, what you said in this later life is not bad. Yuyang is more than a few thousand miles away from Yingchuan, and Liu Xiaozi has a heavy responsibility, so it is right that he cannot be separated. ”

"Or else"

After intense discussions, it was finally decided that all the teenagers would move to Yuyang, and as for the old people and women, they felt that their homeland was difficult to leave, and none of them were willing to go to Yuyang.

is Liu's mother, who thinks about her son no longer in her heart, but she doesn't want to travel long distances and leave her homeland forever.

In the end, Qi Tian and the others took away more than 100 teenagers and 100 carts from the village.

Half of the cart is high-quality wheat seeds, and the other half is weapons accumulated in half a year.

It is said that as soon as Liu got Liu Yuan's letter, he gathered twelve brothers that night and conveyed Liu Yuan's meaning.

Liu Fifteen, the subsidiary force on Liu Yuanming's face, the person in charge of the Central Plains Commercial Bank, said: "First brother, this matter has to be handled by division of labor!" ”

"The things on the surface are done in the name of the Central Plains Commercial Bank, and the first brother is responsible for the things in the secret."

"Of course," Liu Yiyi: "I am responsible for eighty percent of the grain and grass materials, and you are responsible for twenty percent; Talent recruits you to be responsible; I'm in charge of the homeless. ”

"Okay, that's it!" The rest of them all nodded yes. Then the lights in the secret room went out, and more than a dozen figures flashed, and all of them disappeared.

A few days later, the Central Plains Commercial Bank released rumors, first, Yuyang County recruited students, and all those who wished received it; Second, recruit people with various specialties - no matter your status, as long as you have a skill, you can build roads, farm, and harvest!

After the news came out, it caused a strong repercussion in Luoyang, and at a very fast speed, it spread all over Sili and the adjacent states. Many poor people with skills rushed to Luoyang, in order to eat that bite of official food.

As for the scholars, ten days and a half months have passed, and no one has gone to sign up.

Although Liu Yi and the others had already guessed, they still couldn't stop sighing at this time. Fortunately, Liu Yuan did not have a hard surname to stipulate the number of people, otherwise more than a dozen of them would probably only learn from Liu Yuan and go around kidnapping.

A month later, the two major trading houses exhausted their financial resources, openly and secretly purchased a total of 500,000 stones of grain and grass, thousands of craftsmen of all kinds, and tens of thousands of displaced people, all of which were transported to Yuyang in batches. In addition, there are more than a dozen Confucian scholars - all of whom are children of poor families, because of the justice in their hearts, and at the same time grateful for the printing work of the Central Plains Commercial Bank, they resolutely chose Yuyang.

At the same time, the main body of the two major commercial banks has basically shifted to Yuyang.

Then, Zhongyuan Commercial Bank learned about the cooperation between Liu Yuan and the Zhen family, and got in touch and reached a consensus in various business fields.

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