There is no money, naturally we have to think about opening up and reducing expenditure, of course, saving money is not saving much money, the whole Yangzhou is developing up and down, how can there be a place to save money, the river to be dredged, the road to be repaired, but also to open up the wasteland, now Yangzhou is a thriving look.

If you can't save money, then open source, open source, this is going to ask the household department Shangshu Mi Zhu, and Mi Zhu was called, Mi Zhu could only shake his head, and now the basic scene in Yangzhou is no longer big, and it is not easy to maintain such a trade route.

The annual tax burden should be about 300,000 to 400,000 gold, which is still on the basis of Mi Zhu's use of a qiē relationship, and it is impossible to increase it, unless it is to kill the chicken and take the eggs.

"If you can't do it on the trade route, then let's change the way!" Liu Mang thought about it, the easiest wealth to make, and also the fastest way to get money, Liu Mang thought for a while, and finally his eyes lit up.

Why didn't he think that the easiest thing to get rich in this world is not anything else, that is, war wealth, when the cannon sounds, the gold is not war wealth, take a city, get a city's taxes, get the ordnance left by the enemy in the city, the treasury, these are wealth, and there is also the enemy to cut the land and pay compensation, Yangzhou is now the army is ready to go.

The first thing Liu Mang thought of was Jingzhou, because Jingzhou was really rich, and when he took a Jiangling capital, Liu Mang received 500,000 stone of grain and grass, countless armor and weapons, and hundreds of thousands of gold, all of which were money.

If you take Jingzhou Nanjun and Jingzhou Mansion Xiangyang, I am afraid that you will be able to get no less than a million gold receipts.

"Yuan Zhi. How about we send troops to attack Jingzhou? "Liu Mang is going crazy thinking about money now. There is such a rich man around him. If you don't rob his mother, I'm sorry for him Liu Mang's Yangzhou army.

Liu Mang originally thought that Xu Shu would agree with his idea, the three main forces in Jingzhou now, one of the main forces of Wenpin has been wiped out in the Yangtze River, and one of Huang Zu's soldiers and horses can only guard the five counties of Changsha, and the last main elite is in the hands of Cai Mao, but now Cai Mao and Liu Biao are not compatible, Cai Mao is not bad if he does not rebel, you still expect Cai Mao to help you. So now is a good time to attack Jingzhou.

But Xu Shu shook his head at Liu Mang and said, "My lord, now is definitely not the time to attack Jingzhou!" ”

"Why is that?" Liu Mang didn't understand. With such a rich man in front of you, why don't you attack it?

"Lord, if we take Jiangxia, the Jiangxia Zhongshi clan has already withdrawn, Jiangxia is basically dispensable, take Jiangling, that is my General Lu Xun's strategy, and the raid on Jiangling will be completed with the help of the eldest lady of the Wu family in Jiangling, but if you want to attack Xiangyang now, then you will not be an enemy of Liu Biao!" Xu Shu said to Liu Mang.

"Isn't it an enemy of Liu Biao? What does this mean? ”

"It's not an enemy of Liu Biao, it's an enemy of the whole of Jingzhou." Xu Shu continued to speak.

"There's a difference between the two!" Liu Mang didn't understand. Isn't this Jingzhou the Jingzhou of Liu Biao, and Liu Biao and Jingzhou are still distinguished?

"There's a big difference between the two. What does it take for the Lord to win the world? Xu Shu asked Liu Mang.

"The hearts of the people? Army? Liu Mang replied suspiciously. Those who win the hearts of the people win the world, Liu Mang still understands, you see that Liu Bei is putting on a show over there, so that the people can be fooled, and finally die for him in vain, and there is a strong army.

"Yes!" Xu Shu nodded: "But my lord, do you think you are above these two now?" Did you win the hearts and minds of the people in Jingzhou, and did you have enough troops? ”

"The army? I Yangzhou 100,000 elite pillows are ready to go, and my Yangzhou navy in the Yangtze River has also been across the river, I can give them 30% of the tax for this popular heart, can he Liu Biao compare to my Yangzhou? Liu Mang said to Xu Shu, thirty percent of the tax, this amount, it can be said that no prince dares to play like this, once three percent of the tax, then he doesn't want to have enough grain and grass to fight, Liu Mang is not afraid, that is because there are many ownerless fertile fields in Yangzhou, plus Liu Mang has something like sweet potatoes in his hands, so he can afford to play, he doesn't believe that Liu Biao can still think of him Liu Mang to the people.

Xu Shu shook his head with a wry smile, "Lord, we didn't care before, because it's true that Jingzhou Liu Biao can't pay thirty percent of the tax, but the lord, it's on the border of Jingzhou." And what we are going to attack this time is the Jingzhou Mansion, which is the Xiangyang generation. Xu Shu explained to Liu Mang that it didn't matter if Liu Mang attacked the periphery of Jingzhou, because the people there were indeed poor, and they wished to enjoy the benefits of paying taxes in 30% after joining Yangzhou, but it was different for the Xiangyang generation.

What kind of place is Xiangyang, that is the economic and political center of Jingzhou, it can be regarded as a place where wealth can flow oil, a music hall can bring an income of 10,000 gold a day, not to mention other places, just like now, even if it is an ordinary person in the imperial capital, he can become a millionaire or a multimillionaire by selling his house.

Therefore, the people in Xiangyang, although they are still in a state of high taxes, they are not poor, which is why Liu Pan can't find the soldiers near Xiangyang, why do people have money and food, why do they want to follow you to do the work of pinning their heads to their waists.

If Liu Mang attacks Jingzhou now, then he will really not be an enemy of Liu Biao, but an enemy of these people.

These people think simply, this is my hometown, but also my Jingzhou's political and economic center, when Liu Biao is here, my property can be sold at a high price, if you attack me, your capital of Yangzhou has nothing to do with me in Shouchun, my status in Xiangyang will naturally be reduced, not to mention the sharp drop in housing prices, and there is another reason if you beat my home to the end.

This has touched the vital interests of the people, and the people of Xiangyang will not buy Liu Mang's battle at that time, and even the 30,000 elite Jingzhou sailors under Cai Mao may only be able to turn the bow of the ship and deal with Yangzhou with Liu Biao, after all, Xiangyang is also the hometown of those Jingzhou sailors.

"Wouldn't it be nice if I gave them the same treatment! But I will give less houses, and I will give less fields! Liu Mang said to Xu Shu.

"My lord, how much more can you give? Hundreds of thousands of people in Jingzhou. If you give it to the people of Xiangyang. What about the rest of us in Yangzhou? Xu Shu asked rhetorically. There is no absolute fairness in this world, but there is a premise that there is no lack of wealth and unevenness, if you give so many benefits to the people of Jingzhou, how do you face the people of Yangzhou, you can't favor one over the other, the people of Yangzhou have shared weal and sorrow with you.

"This people's heart is on the one hand, and there is another one, that is, the huge relationship between the scholars and clans in Jingzhou!" Xu Shu spoke again, Liu Mang got the Jiangxia and Jiangling places in Jingzhou, which were both of good character. After Jiangxia was dismissed from Huang Zu, the Shi clan in Jiangxia moved out of Jiangxia, and as the Jiangxia War became bigger and bigger, the Shi clan had already run away without a shadow, so there was no hindrance to take Jiangxia.

The original first scholar clan in Jiangling was the Wu family of the Jiangling Boat King, and they were also killed by Liu Pan with an excuse, so the scholars who were related to the Wu family were also in danger, afraid that they were the next Wu family, and they also began to move towards Jingnan, that is, the five counties of Changsha, as for the scholars related to Dong Zhi. Because Dong Zhi rebelled, Lu Xun dealt with it simply, that is, to raid his family and exterminate his family. If you rebel, you will naturally have an excuse to mess with you, and no one will say anything about it.

Therefore, Gangneung and Jiangxia can accept it very easily.

But now if you want to attack Xiangyang, it's different, what kind of place is Xiangyang, that's where the scholars gather, the Central Plains is chaotic, and many large and small Eshi tribes in the Central Plains have all taken refuge in Jingzhou, so the Nashi tribes in Xiangyang are one after another.

Although the relationship between the largest Kuai family and the Cai family is very good for Liu Mang, it is not easy to speak for Yangzhou in this situation, because after Liu Mang attacks Xiangyang and takes Xiangyang, it will definitely be a change of power and a purge of interests.

If Liu Mang is going to come in, he will inevitably bring those scholars from Yangzhou to come, and there will inevitably be conflicts between the local scholars and the scholars from outside Yangzhou, the cake is so big, and there are more people who share the cake, so naturally some people will suffer.

No one wants this kind of loss, so once Liu Mang attacks Xiangyang, this group of scholars will definitely unite the front.

"Then what should I do, I can't fight this, I can't fight that, should I let him Liu Biao enjoy his old age! Then Liu Pan is forming a new army, waiting for the 100,000 army in Xiangyang to appear again! "Liu Mang is stunned, attacking Jingzhou is not only Liu Mang coveting the wealth of Jingzhou, but also to take revenge on Liu Biao. After all, Liu Mang almost died in the hands of Liu Biao. There was also that woman, thinking of her Liu Mang's heart couldn't help but tingle.

"Lord, we can't attack now, but it doesn't mean that my army can't take Xiangyang!" Xu Shu shook his head and stepped forward to comfort Liu Mang.

"Huh?"

"My lord, we can only let Liu Biao unify the strength of the entire Jingzhou if we go to attack Jingzhou now, you are the enemy of us, this is not good for us, even if we capture Xiangyang, we are unable to enter other places, and in the end we can only live in a corner. And we are now the best attack, and he Jingzhou is not a monolith, can the lord know that Huang Jie, the eldest son of the Huang family, and Liu Pan, the second son of Liu Biao?" Xu Shu said to Liu Mang.

Of course, these two people Liu Mang knew, not only did they know but they were also more familiar, because both of them had been enemies with Liu Mang, "What?" ”

"These two people are Liu Biao's left arm and right arm now!" Xu Shu said with a smile: "But these two people are incompatible. ”

Xu Shu's previous sentence made Liu Mang frown, but the latter sentence made Liu Mang think.

Liu Biao's two henchmen have a conflict, this is not a small fun, although the king's imperial technique, that is, to support one subordinate to suppress another subordinate, and then support the suppressed one to fight back in turn, so as to ensure the balance of the rights under his hands.

But that's the art of the emperor, then you have to wait for the unification of the empire, if you have no enemies in the country, now Jingzhou itself is difficult to protect, and there is still infighting inside, isn't this looking for death.

"Liu Biao's age is deep, and according to the information sent by Yang Chang's envoy, Liu Biao won't live long." Yang Hong's spies in Jingzhou brought the news that Liu Biao had vomited blood several times, and his face was very bad, and from the medicinal materials he used, there had been medicinal materials such as ginseng and He Shou Wu, which were used to hang his life.

"Liu Biao can still maintain restraint in these two people, if once Liu Biao dies, my lord, what do you say will happen to this Xiangyang?"

Since Huang Jian and Liu Pan have become enemies, naturally there will be no good situation.

If Liu Pan wants to suppress Huang Jie, then he must get the big position in Jingzhou, on the contrary, if Huang Shot wants to press Liu Pan, then he must not let Liu Pan have this opportunity, then he must support Liu Biao's youngest son Liu Zong.

The Cai family and the Kuai family also wanted to support Liu Zong's accession to the throne, and Liu Pan had military power in his hands. Once Liu Biao died, Liu Mang had already seen that scene. Liu Mang can't force Xiangyang too much now, but should relax and let Liu Biao's second son train the soldiers and horses to command the army well.

Just when the two were discussing, a personal guard ran in and said to Liu Mang, "Report!" Back to His Royal Highness's Prime Minister, Xu Du will come! (To be continued......)