In the twelfth year of Jian'an, in order to prepare for the war in Jingzhou, Cao Jun built the Xuanwu Pond in the north of Zhangshui, forming a giant lake with thousands of hectares of sparkling, which was specially used to train the navy.

However, with the repeated setbacks of Cao's southern expedition, Cao's army finally gave up the plan of the southern expedition, and this Xuanwu Pond was gradually abandoned by Cao's army and turned into a reedy lake.

There are hundreds of warehouses on the east bank of Xuanwu Pond, which used to be the military supplies warehouse of Cao's navy, but now they are all abandoned, and many buildings have become a den of rats, foxes and wild dogs, but there are also some shrewd merchants who buy them at low prices and become warehouses for hoarding goods.

In the afternoon, more than a dozen horseback riders arrived in this desolate and huge warehouse complex, and Li Fu and several of his men were among them, and he was now a black-market merchant in the background of the Han State.

And another middle-aged man in his fifties is another protagonist, his surname is Jin, everyone calls him Jin Sanye, but his real name is not mentioned.

This person was originally engaged in Cao Cao's army, Cao Hong's relative, mixed in the Cao army for more than 20 years, the army is very well-connected, opened a grain shop in Yedu, but in the Hefei War, there was a suspicion of embezzlement of grain and was dismissed by Zhang Liao.

He simply returned to Yedu and devoted himself to running a grain store, but last year the grain was strictly controlled by the government, and his grain business could not continue, so he began to deal in some black market goods, using the military connections to get a lot of contraband, and privately selling them to businessmen of unknown origin in order to make huge profits.

Recently, both Han and Cao have opened up trade, and the black market trade has begun to flourish, Jin Sanye also seems to have encountered spring, and has become extraordinarily active, he recently got a batch of prohibited goods, and he was anxious to make a move, so he contacted Li Fu through a guò intermediary, hoping to make this deal with Li Fu.

"Master Li, I assure you, they are all real military products, not the kind of rags picked up on the battlefield, if you sincerely want it, you can eat all the goods, and I will make some profits at the price, what does Li Ye think?"

Jin Sanye was very bold and loud, Li Fu smiled slightly: "Let's talk about it after seeing the goods!" ”

"Yes, seeing is believing."

They approached a large warehouse, and a few men stood in front of the warehouse, and when they saw that the proprietor had brought people, they hurriedly opened the door of the warehouse.

"Master Li, please!"

Li Fu nodded, and followed him into the warehouse, which looked very dilapidated on the outside, but there seemed to be a wall partition inside, and there was a small door on the wall, and the door was locked with iron chains.

Jin Sanye stepped forward to open the lock, pushed open the small door, this is his secret warehouse, I saw that the warehouse occupies a large area, it is full of large and small wooden boxes and straw bags, Jin Sanye pointed to dozens of large wooden boxes in the corner of the wall and smiled: "If Li Ye wants fire oil, I also have it here, but the price is not negotiable, a total of seventy barrels of fire oil, a price, five taels of gold per barrel." ”

Li Fu was secretly surprised in his heart, he knew that Cao Jun was very strict with the fire oil, this person could actually get it, it seems that this person does have some ability, Jin Sanye didn't want to sell him the oil oil, they walked to another corner, where thousands of straw bags were piled up, some long and some short, which were the standard straw bags of Cao Jun's weapons.

"It's all here, thirty spears in a bundle, a total of two thousand and one hundred, three thousand war knives, one thousand five hundred crossbows, each with thirty crossbows and arrows, all of which have never been used."

Li Fu bent down and flipped over, sure enough, they were all new army spears and knives, and he picked up a military crossbow, a standard two-stone arm crossbow, exquisite workmanship, exquisite materials, it can be seen that it is from the hands of a military craftsman, Li Fu saw that there were five military crossbows in a straw bag, his heart moved, and he looked through them one by one, and sure enough, the numbers were all connected together.

Li Fu immediately understood that these weapons were either stolen by the guards of the Shaofu Temple arsenal, or they were obtained from the military camp, but the possibility of the arsenal is not large, and the management of Yedu is still relatively strict, Li Fu has also heard that there are many Cao Jun military camps who falsely reported the number of soldiers in order to obtain military rations, and it is estimated that these weapons are also overreceived because of false reports of soldiers, and they are sold by the general.

This made Li Fu sigh secretly, Cao Cao desperately smuggled pig iron grain, but there were loopholes below, and the weapons he worked so hard to make were constantly lost.

"How about it, the goods are still satisfied!" Jin Sanye is very confident in his goods.

Li Fu sighed and smiled: "I want all these goods, and I don't have to let the price go, but I have two conditions." ”

Jin Sanye was overjoyed, he actually didn't let the price, that would be the best, he hurriedly said: "Master Li, please speak!" ”

"First, I want to establish a long-term business relationship with the third master, I will eat as much as the third master has, the price is negotiable, and all the payment will be made with Hanguo gold ingots."

"And the second?" Jin Sanye asked quietly, he knew that the first condition was so favorable, then the second condition must be difficult to handle.

"The second condition is the delivery address, frankly speaking, I can't ship these military products, I hope that the delivery location will be placed on the north bank of the Huai River in the future, how about it?"

In fact, Jin Sanye has vaguely guessed that this Li Ye bought these military products, either to send them to the grassland, or to the Han Kingdom, and now the other party proposed that the delivery location was in the Huai River, and it was indeed the Han Kingdom.

In fact, it doesn't hurt to sell the Han Kingdom, if it is sold to the Xianbei people, he will be embarrassed, and he doesn't want to sell these weapons to other races, Jin Sanye laughed heartily, "If it is to go to the state, I really can't do it, I have connections on the other side of the Huai River, so I will do it according to Li Ye's requirements." ”

"Then this shipment will be sent over too."

"No problem, I'll take the waterway and I'm ready to go."

Li Fu was overjoyed, raised his palm and said, "Then we will make up our minds!" ”

The two of them high-fived heavily, and the deal was completed, and at this time, Jin Sanye couldn't help but ask, "Is Li Ye from over there?" ”

"Everyone is a businessman, and if someone wants to buy military funds, I am profitable, and of course I will not let go of this opportunity to make money."

Li Fu smiled, "For example, where did these military goods come from, I will never ask the third master." ”

The two of them looked at each other and both laughed tacitly.

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The Honglu Pavilion of the Han State in Yedu is equivalent to the embassy of later generations, Li Fu's intelligence organization is dark, and the Honglu Pavilion is Ming, which is the official representative of the Han State in Yedu, and at the same time, Wei also has a Honglu Pavilion in Chang'an, representing the Wei State in the Han State.

Not far from Cao Pi's deputy prime minister's mansion, the Honglu Pavilion of the Han Kingdom is a mansion covering an area of about 20 acres, which contains more than 100 Han officials and sergeants, and the chief envoy of the Honglu Pavilion is Zheng Li, the Shaoqing of the Honglu Temple of the Han Kingdom, who is a shrewd and capable young official in his thirties.

Zheng Li was born in Xingyang Zheng, is the grandson of the great Confucian Zheng Xuan, ranked ninth in the Xiangyang imperial examination, successively served as a county officer, a county order, and a Changsha county Cheng, last autumn was promoted to Honglu Temple Shaoqing, at the beginning of this year, the Han State set up a Honglu Hall in Yedu, Zheng Li served as a Honglu envoy, stationed in Yedu for a long time.

In the afternoon, Zheng Li met with a small businessman who came to complain about fake money, the businessman's surname was Zhao, he said that it was Li Yejian of Jucai Tavern who came here to complain, Zheng Li understood that it was Li Fu who asked this person to come.

Zheng Li asked the merchant to sit down, and the merchant poured a pile of fake money on the table, and pleaded: "Here are one hundred and twenty coins, equivalent to twelve thousand dollars, I am a small business, I can't afford to lose!" I beg Gong Zheng to help me get justice. ”

Zheng Li nodded, "I'll do my best!" ”

At this time, an official walked into the lobby quickly and saluted Zheng Li, this person's name is Zhang Ping, an official of Shaofu Temple, and he has not been in Ye for long, and he is specially dealing with fake money.

In Yedu, there are a lot of fake five-baht coins, but fake money is the first time it has appeared, Zhang Ping's expression is stern, he sat down and picked up a fake money to look at it carefully, and soon shook his head, Zheng Li asked, "How?" ”

Generally speaking, it is difficult to counterfeit money, and it is easy to have color difference, but if it is mixed with eighty percent gold and two percent brass, it is indeed not easy for ordinary people to see, but it is difficult to take out so much gold if the amount is large, and it is unprofitable to have a small amount, so so far I have not seen fake money and gold ingots."

Zheng Li nodded, and asked the merchant again, "Where did you get all this money?" ”

The merchant was a little embarrassed to speak, and finally said helplessly: "I got it from the black market, and the general exchange price of money is one to one hundred and thirty copper dollars, and the money I exchanged for is only one to one hundred and ten copper dollars, and I was greedy for cheap, so I was fooled." ”

"Alright! I will continue to track down these fake coins for the time being, and if you can help us find the source of the workshop, we will not only make up for your losses, but also reward you with 500 gold. ”

The man perked up and said urgently: "I will definitely do my best to help!" ”

Zheng Li asked him a few more words, and then sent him away, and Zhang Ping next to him asked: "After all, this is Cao Wei's territory, it's not appropriate for us to come forward to arrest him!" ”

Zheng Li thought for a while and said: "Your Highness has ordered that if you find that there is fake money, you can let Cao Jun come forward to solve it, it seems that I have to visit Cao Pi." ”

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From the Han Honglu Pavilion to Cao Pi's Deputy Prime Minister's Mansion is only half a mile apart, you can walk for a while, the Han Dynasty still exists in Yedu, but it has long been in name only, although most of the official offices of Yedu are concentrated in Ye Palace, but the center of power has long been transferred to Cao Pi's Deputy Prime Minister's Mansion, which is also the original Cao Cao's Prime Minister's Mansion, after Cao Cao moved to Tongque Palace, it became the residence of the eldest son Cao Pi.

The Deputy Prime Minister's Mansion covers an area of nearly 500 acres, the front part is the official office of the Wei State, and the back is the residence of Cao Pi, who spent most of his time in his own mansion.

In the afternoon, Cao Pi was in the official room to review the text, and at this time, a guard reported outside the door, "Qi Yu Shizi, Han Guohonglu made Zheng Li have something important to see!" ”

Cao Pi hurriedly put down his pen and said, "Please let him in!" ”

Cao Pi attaches great importance to the envoy of the Han Kingdom, generally Zheng Li's arrival will bring important news, he does not dare to slack off, for a moment, Zheng Li walked into the official room quickly, bowed down and said: "See the prince!" ”

"Zheng Shaoqing is exempt, please take a seat!"

Zheng Li sat down, a maid served them tea, Zheng Li had no intention of drinking tea, and said to Cao Pi: "A few days ago, His Royal Highness the King of Han sent a letter to the Duke of Wei, asking Wei to help us fight against counterfeit money, I don't know what your attitude is?" ”

Cao Pi smiled, "Do you still need to ask?" We also hate the act of minting fake money, we have a very clear attitude, we will never allow fake money to flood in Wei, and we will crack down on one if there is one, and we will never tolerate it, please Zheng Shaoqing tell His Royal Highness the King of Han that we will fully cooperate with the Han State to crack down on the minting of fake money. ”

"Thank you for your support, we have found out that there is fake money in Yedu, and I hope you can keep your promise."

Saying that, Zheng Li handed a fake money to Cao Pi, who took it and looked at it for a moment, nodded and said, "Of course we will keep our promises, as long as you can provide clear clues, we will definitely crack down." ”

"Then it's a word, and within two days, we'll provide a clear clue."

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Two days later, a 500-strong Cao army raided the black market of coins in the southern city of Yedu, and arrested dozens of traders who were engaged in black market transactions.

At the same time, Wei also gave up minting Wei money and began to mint new Han money on a large scale, and the currency war between Cao and Han gradually turned into a trade war, buying a large number of materials from each other and beginning to actively prepare for war.

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