Gongsun Pei did not have time to delve into the issue of monetary theory, but it did not prevent him from understanding the essence of money, considering the current family background and development situation of Qingzhou, it was really difficult to withstand a large-scale foreign war, so he tried his best to persuade Liu Cun to adopt the strategy of "watching from the sidelines and showing weakness".

The far-sighted Gongsun Pei always believed that the more chaotic the princes who had formed a division, the better, and only the chaos could be brought to Liu Cun.

Therefore, when Liu Cun, Guoyuan, and Han Yang were very happy, Gongsun Chan solemnly reminded again: "Lord, while we are good friends with Gongsun Zhan, we must also take into account the feelings of Yuan Shao and others, as well as Liu Yu in Youzhou, otherwise, they are likely to regard our sale of weapons and ordnance to Gongsun Chan as my Qingzhou's support for Gongsun Zhan's conquest of Jizhou, and the lord needs to make more plans." ”

Liu Cun immediately understood: "Do you need to send someone out for a visit?" ”

Gongsun Pei smiled: "Don't be so troublesome, the lord only needs to instruct Lu Ping, the head of the Langya Chamber of Commerce, to let him hold a commodity fair in Xiahe City like the year before last, and invite giant businessmen from all over the world to come to gather and negotiate." ”

"Brilliant plan! Don't hesitate, the sooner the better! Now that preparations have begun, it will take about 40 days to hold the event. Guo Yuan immediately chimed in.

Han Yang then agreed: "This is very good, the giant merchants in various places are the same as our Langya Chamber of Commerce and Mijia Commercial House, all of them are vassals of the gate valves, and the lord can convey my Qingzhou's willingness to refuse disputes and be alone without a trace through the commodity fair where the world's giant merchants gather, which is a hundred times more wonderful than sending an envoy to explain." ”

Liu Cun was as good as a stream, and immediately ordered Zhao Li to draft an order. Sign his name and give it to Han Yang, who is in charge of this matter, and instruct Guoyuan to go to Xiahe City and Langya Academy. Let the local businesses that have been set up in Xiahe City for a long time and Langya Academy promote this matter together.

The famous students of Langya Academy will never let go of this great opportunity to promote their ideas and show their talents, and they will create public opinion for this without asking.

In late June of the second year of the first peace. Gongsun Zhan was still preparing for the big war in full swing, Yuan Shao and Jizhou Mu Hanfu, Yanzhou Assassin Liu Dai and others were also nervously recruiting troops to prepare for the battle, and Cao Cao, who was watching from the sidelines, was also unwilling to be lonely and seized the opportunity to recruit troops and horses to expand his strength.

Sun Jian, who wanted to become his own family, obtained Yuan Shu's consent and immediately led his troops south to attack Liu Biao, trying to gain his own hegemony by defeating Liu Biao.

Under such a tense situation, the news that Qingzhou was scheduled to hold an unprecedented "Langya Commodity Fair" on 20 July quickly spread to all states in the world.

At the invitation of Han Fu, Yuan Shao, who had been driving Yecheng for half a month, was deeply puzzled when he received the news. Immediately convened all the civil and military forces under his command to discuss, combined with the analysis of the situation of Qingzhou's large-scale construction of roads and bridges in the past few months, and the heavy accumulation of troops on the border between Qingzhou and Qinghai-Hebei and Qinghai-Yan, and finally came to a unanimous conclusion:

Qingzhou has just experienced the shock of the influx of hundreds of thousands of displaced people, and its vitality has not yet recovered, in order to continue to implement the new policy and consolidate the results, Liu Cun and his henchmen are no longer able to take care of it, and it seems that they have made up their minds to stay alone!

Cao Cao, who was entrenched in Dongjun, received a summer harvest supplement, and basically got out of the dilemma of lack of food and clothing, and Cao Cao was in the governance for more than half a year. He deeply realized the benefits of stabilizing agriculture and establishing industry and commerce, and in the letters sent by his father Cao Song from Langya twice a month, he often praised Langya's prosperity and rich cultural atmosphere, and praised the many achievements of Qingzhou's new policy. Therefore, after Cao Cao's short consideration, he wrote a letter to Liu Cun, who had been in correspondence with each other for a long time, saying that he would start to integrate the major businesses in Dongjun. Set up a large chamber of commerce to attend the grand event held in Langya Xiahe City on July 20 as scheduled. I implore Liu Cun to take care of Yunyun.

Liu Cun and his henchmen's plan to confuse the enemy was very successful, and Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zhan, who were preparing for a battle. The attitude towards Qingzhou is very reassuring, and none of the princes from all walks of life mention the little emperor and the Han court trapped in Chang'an, and they avoid Luoyang, the old capital that has become an empty city like a ghost.

Yuan Shao was relieved that Liu Cun had just gotten rid of the economic crisis, but he was annoyed by Liu Cun's sale of a large number of sophisticated weapons to Gongsun Zhan, and privately ridiculed Liu Cun as a mercenary hypocrite and a nouveau riche who was difficult to get into the hall of elegance.

But within a few days, Yuan Shao learned that Gongsun Zhan once again paid a high price to buy back five 12-zhang long fast paddle wheels and seven 100-ton new inland river cargo ships from the Qingzhou Navy Army, and the newly established Jizhou Navy began to transport troops in the Yishui River valley where the two armies confronted, showing off their military might, and the threat to Jizhou was multiplied.

At this time, Yuan Shao finally couldn't sit still, and while scolding Liu Cun for being despicable and shameless, he sent his henchman Xu You to carry a huge amount of money and rush down the river to Linzi by boat, and buy a large number of ordnance and ten fast paddle wheels for water warfare from Liu Cun.

As soon as Xu You arrived in Linzi, he was warmly welcomed by Liu Cun and his subordinates, and in only ten days, Liu Cun sent Xu You 20,000 sets of high-quality and inexpensive Qingzhou infantry armor, 5,000 sets of Langya cavalry armor, 50,000 spearheads, 10,000 horizontal knives, 2.5 million sharp arrows and 1,000 expensive broadswords for equipping officers, together with the ten paddle wheel warships vacated by the Qingzhou Navy, and handed them over to Xu You to take back to Liyang River Port in southern Hebei.

On July 20, 14 giant merchants, including the "Hepu Commercial Bank" of the Jiaozhou Shi family and the "Liangzhou Commercial Bank" of the Jiao family of Guanzhong, gathered in Langya to participate in the unprecedented commodity trading event of the Han Dynasty.

The battle between Gongsun Chan and Yuan Shao also broke out on the same day, and in only half a day, the 50,000 cavalry led by Gongsun Chan broke through the defense line painstakingly constructed by Han Fu's 70,000 Jizhou army, and achieved a remarkable record of destroying more than 12,000 enemies and capturing 30,000 people.

Two days later, Yan Gang, the vanguard general under the command of Gongsun Zhan, led 10,000 cavalry to the north bank of the Hutuo River to Anguo (now south of Boye, Hebei) and Wuyuan (now southeast of Suning, Hebei) on the north bank of the Hutuo River, and the entire Zhongshan Kingdom and half of Hejian County fell into Gongsun Zhan's pocket.

The combined forces of Yuan Shao and Han Fu were defeated again and again, retreating more than 200 miles, causing an uproar among the princes of the world.

Liu Cun and his henchmen who attended the "Langya Commodity Fair" still stayed in Xiahe City, frequently met with representatives of major merchants and celebrities from all over the world, held a grand banquet, entertained giant businessmen and door valve representatives from various states of Dahan, appreciated all kinds of Langya porcelain and fine wine together, led the guests to visit the major workshops affiliated to Langya Agricultural Business School, proudly showed the guests the achievements of industry and commerce over the years, and proudly showed all the guests the grand occasion of Langya Agricultural Business and Business College.

Langya Agricultural Business College has achieved self-sufficiency two years ago, so far, the college has transferred more than 30 kinds of advanced manufacturing technology to major merchants in Qingzhou and Xuzhou, popularized abacus and new bookkeeping, published and distributed more than 150 kinds of books covering the classics, smelting, machinery, arithmetic, geography and architectural design and other fields, among which the revision and printing of arithmetic, music, institutions and geographical classics of the past dynasties has spread all over the world.

In the first half of this year, the four major workshops of ceramics, papermaking, machinery and textiles under the college made a profit of 65 million yuan, which was used for the construction of the college, the subsidy of teachers and students, and the equipment renewal of the affiliated workshops after deducting 10% of the tax.

The giant businessmen from all over the Han Dynasty are full of praise for Langya Agricultural Industry and Business College, believing that this is a pioneering achievement in the history of education, and they are even more amazed at Xiahe City, which has a population of one million and is connected with Langya Terrace, and seems to be the same as Liu Cun, who has been immersed in the beautiful wealth and prosperous life of Langya, and has no concern about the war situation in Jizhou.

In fact, all the gate lords are taking advantage of this rare opportunity to spy on Qingzhou's military and political, civil affairs and people's livelihood intelligence, do everything possible to steal the technology of Qingzhou's major workshops, and do not hesitate to lure the craftsmen and management talents of the major workshops.

Liu Cun and his civil and military officials swirled between the major feasts every day, seemingly leisurely and complacent, but in fact, they were also nervous in their hearts - the top-secret battle plan of the Qingzhou Army had entered a state of implementation with the continuous dispersion of Yanzhou's troops!

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