Liu Cun was quite jealous in his heart that the attitude of the new Dongjun Taishou Cao Cao was very vague.

According to the intelligence feedback, after Cao Cao led more than 3,000 hometown soldiers to Dongjun to take up the post of Taishou, he has been recruiting talents and training hard, and did not go upstream to Huai County to meet the nominal alliance leader Yuan Shao, Yuan Shao did not visit Cao Cao, and the two did not even send envoys, and it seems that they are still haunted by the previous contradictions.

Only Liu Dai, the assassin of Yanzhou, went to Puyang, the seat of the eastern county, to visit Cao Cao, who had just arrived, but at noon the next day, he led the newly recruited 2,000 soldiers to the south and returned to Changyi, the seat of the state capital.

Seeing the opponent's purpose clearly and figuring out the opponent's strength, Liu Cun made a decisive decision: temporarily stop the reorganization plan of the various units of the Langya Army in Mengyin and Fei County, and secretly order Wang Qi, who was guarding the Langya Kingdom, Yan Shen, who was stationed in Fei County, and Zhai Yue, who was stationed in Mengyin, to enter a state of combat readiness.

Because there was enough time to prepare, Liu Cun did not agree to Xu Sheng and Lejin's request for battle, but asked them to complete the reorganization of the two divisions under their command as soon as possible and start a three-month special tactical training and confrontation drill.

Le Jin was quite anxious in his heart, worried that the Yellow Turban Army within a radius of hundreds of miles from Mount Tai would not be able to withstand the pressure of the officers and soldiers of Yanzhou and Jizhou, so he suddenly turned around and marched eastward, and once again invaded Mengyin, Dong'an, Dongguan and other county towns that had finally stabilized, and even took a risk to attack Banyang City (now Zichuan) 70 miles southwest of Linzi and Linqu City in the south of Beihai Kingdom.

As a result, Xu Sheng was the first to come to his senses and asked Le Jin in a low voice: "Brother Wen Qian, have you forgotten the previous identity of General Xu He, the lieutenant of the Beihai Kingdom?" ”

Le Jin suddenly realized, laughed and was completely relieved, and finally understood why the lord Liu Cun and Mr. Zhu. At the critical juncture, if he still lifted weights like this, he couldn't help but feel sorry for his ill-intentioned opponent Liu Dai and others.

The next two months. Fortunately, in the past six months, he has familiarized himself with books such as "Army Establishment and Command Structure," "Weapons and Equipment and Their Application," "Infantry and Cavalry Training Program," "Infantry and Cavalry Drill Code," "Tactical Training and Coordination," and "Collection of Combat Cases of Sun Tzu's Art of War." Now it is not very difficult to deal with it, and I can participate in the general school seminar that began in early June, and at the same time seize the time to train with my subordinates, and every day is very fulfilling.

At the end of August, all the 2.5 million stone grain purchased from Xuzhou arrived at the two major storage warehouses in Zhushan and Tatecheng, and Liu Cun was finally able to relax and devote all his energy to the regularization of the army.

At the beginning of September, Xu Sheng and Lejin successfully concluded a three-month seminar on the general school, and the first and second brigades of the Langya Army were reorganized. Xu Sheng and Le Jin, under the farewell of the lord Liu Cun, led 30,000 soldiers with new equipment to silently drive to Feixian and Mengyin to take over.

The 120,000-strong army of Liu Dai, Bao Xin and Han Fu worked hard for more than three months, but they were still unable to force back the various units of the Yellow Turban Army entrenched in the western and southern foothills of Mount Tai. Then several roads combined to attack and fight, and a large number of weapons and materials were seized and roared away with one blow.

What changed the complexion of the officers and soldiers of Ji Yan when they heard this was that there were always a few teams of elite Yellow Turban cavalry that suddenly appeared in the depth of their rear, frequently ambushing the grain transport team. Sneak attack on the camp with empty troops, kill gods when encountering gods, and kill ghosts when encountering ghosts. exhausted his ability to burn and loot, and after he succeeded, he disappeared like the wind without a trace. Liu Dai and others, who suffered heavy losses, were so angry that they had no choice but to shrink across the board. Honestly return to the original passive lockdown strategy.

When the princes of all walks of life were fighting openly and secretly, a major event happened in the Han world:

In June of the first year of Chuping (190), the Han Dynasty under the control of Dong Zhuo announced to the world: abolish the five-baht coin and recast small coins for circulation!

As a result, the bronze people, copper goods, and bronze bells in Luoyang, Chang'an and other places were destroyed to mint money, and the disorder of the monetary system soon caused the economic dilemma of "money and goods are not good", and the primitive physical exchange prevailed again, and the Han economy, which had already fallen into crisis, collapsed, and the huge panic and economic depression that affected the whole country spread rapidly.

In this crisis, Qingzhou, which has already established its own monetary system, has suffered very little loss, and the "Langya Money Bank", which has been running smoothly for nearly three years, has played a mainstay role in this crisis.

Under the bitter pleading of the strategists, Liu Zheng finally made up his mind to violate the ban and built a fortress-like "Qingzhou Mansion Mint Workshop" on the north side of the "Qingzhou Mansion Ya Affiliated Printing Workshop" four miles southeast of Linzi City.

Thanks to the timely and continuous monetary support, the Langya Bank, which is located throughout Qingzhou, Langya and the counties in the eastern part of Xuzhou, has played a huge role.

While stabilizing the financial markets of the two states, the Qingzhou government office confidently posted an announcement on July 1:

"From now on, Langya Money Bank only accepts ten taels of gold coins, one tael of gold coins, five baht coins of Dahan and five baht coins minted by the Qingzhou Mansion Mint Workshop, and any merchant can borrow cash coins from local money banks under the condition of having physical collateral, and can also exchange gold, silver and copper for equivalent coins at the bank's valuation!"

Langya Qianxing's move immediately caused many powerful people in Xuzhou to blame, but Thorn Shi Taoqian turned a blind eye to this, and whenever someone under his command spoke to him, he always sighed and said:

"Please take a look at Yuzhou and Yanzhou on the side, what is the chaos? Only my Xuzhou and Qingzhou losses are slight, if it weren't for Langya Money Bank to stabilize the currency and stabilize people's hearts, what would you and I do now? ”

"Yes, although Langya Money Bank is suspected of taking the opportunity to make a fortune, I didn't stop you from opening a money bank! If you have the capital, you can mint my Han five-baht coin, and whoever wants to open the money bank will be allowed by the official. ”

Anyone who listens to Tao Qian's words is helpless, there are many people in Xuzhou who have the capital to open a bank, but this needs the support of the government to have credibility!

Moreover, there are not many people who can mint the Han five-baht coin, and there is no one who can mint a five-baht coin like the "Qingzhou Mint Workshop".

The five baht coins minted in Qingzhou are more exquisite than the Han five baht coins, the quantity and quality are not less, and they have won the trust of all walks of life as soon as they came out, and the only difference between the coin and the five baht of the Han Dynasty that has been in circulation for many years is that the coin has an extra year name of "the first year of the first peace", and the back of the coin has six more beautiful block letters - Qingzhou Mint Workshop.

In late October, the economic situation of the entire Han Dynasty became even worse, except for the Qingzhou Mansion and the Langya Money Company, which wantonly minted five-baht coins and Langya gold coins, and the Langya Money Company, which was specifically operated, made a lot of money in the crisis.

At the same time, another new city rises in the mountain plain in the northeast of the towering Mount Tai in a straight line distance of only 140 miles, this city is called "Boshan", only 40 miles away from the county seat of Qingzhou Panyang (now Zichuan) in the north, and only 42 miles away from the county seat of Laiwu in the east with the same fate as them.

More than 50,000 old and weak women and children who moved from the nest of the Yellow Turban Army at the western and southern foot of Mount Tai have gained the long-awaited food, clothing and stability in this new city with no city walls but rows of wide houses and streets, while many sons, nephews or men of the 50,000 old and weak women and children still remain in the high mountains and deep valleys where they left, and fight to the death with the officers and soldiers of Yanzhou.

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