Qian County has a special significance for Cao Jun, not only because Qian County is Cao Cao's hometown and the family temple of the entire Cao family, but more importantly, the strategic location of Qian County is extremely important, it is the gate to enter the Central Plains, and the entire hinterland of the Central Plains will appear in front of you.

In the defense system of the entire Cao army, the Central Plains region was defended by Cao Zhen, the governor of Yuzhou, and Cao Ren, the governor of Xuzhou, with Chenliu County as the boundary, with Cao Ren in charge of the east of Chenliu County and Cao Zhen in charge of the west of Chenliu County.

In order to defend the Central Plains, Cao's army can be said to have made a bloody investment, only in Xuzhou deployed 100,000 troops, including 30,000 in Qiaojun and Xuzhou, 40,000 in Huaibei, 50,000 troops in Xuchang, 30,000 troops in Luoyang, and 180,000 troops in the entire Central Plains, building the defense of the Central Plains like an iron bucket.

At present, the commander of the Cao army guarding the county is Cao Ren's right-hand man, the general Niu Jin, Niu Jin has followed Cao Ren for many years, fought bravely, and won Cao Ren's trust, Cao Ren gave him the task of defending the county.

The defenders of Qian County are about 30,000 people, respectively guarding the three strategic passages in the territory of Qian County, Qi County, Chengfu County and Qian County, of which Qi County and Chengfu County each have 7,000 garrisons, and Qian County has 14,000 garrisons.

On this morning, a caravan from the direction of Runan County gradually approached Chengfu County, the caravan was not big, only more than 100 mules, full of cloth, there were more than 10 people, one steward and one deputy steward, the steward was about 50 years old, tall, his face was red, and he spoke full of anger, he was Jin Sanye, who went north from Shouchun, and the deputy steward next to him was Li Fu.

This is the task given to them by Liu Jing, and it is more related to Jin Sanye's future status, whether he can be knighted or not is in this move, although he is very nervous in his heart, but Jin Sanye is very face-saving, as long as it is not in front of the King of Han, he will act as if nothing happened, hide his feelings well, and always laugh loudly, controlling the atmosphere of the entire caravan.

On the contrary, Li Fu has always remained silent, he is silent and does not speak much, it is easy for people to think that he is Jin Sanye's entourage, but in fact, he is the decision-maker of this operation.

"Master Li, don't worry, the person we are looking for has been cooperating with me for many years, both sides know each other, I know where his weaknesses are?"

Jin Sanye's consolation only made Li Fu nod slightly, "It's a big deal, I need to be cautious." ”

"Of course be cautious, I've already thought about the plan, I'll test him first."

The caravan and his party gradually approached Chengfu County, the inventory at the gate of the city was very strict, all the people who entered the city were searched, and the caravan had to open the bag for inspection, Li Fu was about to discuss it with Jin Sanye, but Jin Sanye grinned and urged him to step forward.

"The third master is here again, let's make a fortune!"

The soldiers guarding the city seemed to know him and greeted him one after another, Jin Sanye pouted and said: "You can still make a fortune this year, it's good to be able to eat together." ”

Although he said this, he threw a bag of money to the head of the tun without concealment, "Your wine money, the old rules." ”

The tun chief suddenly smiled, and ordered the soldiers: "Let the third master enter the city!" ”

The soldiers got out of the way, Jin Sanye waved his hand and led the caravan into the city with a swagger, but Li Fu heard the tun chief scolding other merchants from a distance, "Shit, do you think Lao Tzu will accept anyone's money?" Open the bag! ”

Li Fu suddenly had confidence in Jin Sanye, and it seemed that his friendship with the people here was indeed unusual.

Everyone stayed in the hostel, Jin Sanye immediately took Li Fu to the barracks, and whispered to Li Fu on the way: "This Zhang Li was the first bandit in Xuzhou, ruthless, murderous, and later joined the Qingzhou Army, after the Qingzhou Army was defeated by the Cao Army, he turned into a general of the Cao Army, this person is bold and black-hearted, extremely greedy, the last time Li Ye saw the oil in the warehouse is that he sold it to me privately, his troops are actually only 2,500 people, but he reported 3,500 people, greedy for 1,000 people's armor and food. ”

"He did it so obviously, Cao Ren didn't care?"

"Cao Ren may have heard of it, but Niu Jin must know the inside story, no matter what kind of thing everyone only looks at the result, as long as Zhang Liken is willing to work hard during the war, he will generally turn a blind eye."

"Does he fight and die?"

Jin Sanye smiled: "His nickname is Desperate Zhang Sanlang, do you say he works hard?" He knew very well that if he refused to give up his life, his good days would come to an end. ”

The two said while walking, and soon came to the military camp in the city, the gatekeeper knew Jin Sanye, and immediately rushed into the camp to report, and after a while, a general of the Cao army about forty years old laughed and greeted him, "I heard the magpie shouting early this morning, and I knew that something good was wrong, and sure enough, the third master came to the door." ”

The two smiled and hugged tightly, and Jin Sanye pulled Li Fu and introduced: "This is my rich man, I specially introduced him to the general, we all call him Li Ye, a cheerful person." ”

Zhang Li's eyes narrowed with a smile, he understood the meaning of Jin Sanye's words, this is Li Ye is the consignee, that is to say, his gold is paid by this Li Ye.

"Where is Master Li?" Zhang Li asked with a smile.

"In Gaoyang, Xiahejian County."

"Oh! My ancestral home is from Anping County, right next door to Hejian County! ”

"So coincidentally, it's not an outsider."

Zhang Li was very enthusiastic, and invited Li Fu and Jin Sanye into the barracks, Zhang Liguan served as a captain, and had his own troops, all of which were Qingzhou troops who had followed him for many years, and of course Cao Jun, in addition to the 3,500 people directly under him, there were 3,500 people who were temporarily assigned to his army.

All the troops were stationed in the county, and the barracks were so large that they occupied thirty percent of the territory in the county, and consisted of two thousand large tents, half of which were food and military supplies.

Cao's military rations were rationed according to the number of troops, and the ordnance was lost because of training, and when the quantity was insufficient, it would be approved under normal circumstances, so there was a loophole in reselling ordnance.

In fact, Cao Jun's regulations are very strict, for example, when receiving new weapons, you must trade in the old for the new, and the damaged weapons will be handed over, and the new weapons will be sent down, but the implementation is not strict, just send people to take a look, and the damaged weapons will not be taken away.

The generals of the Cao army below have a rolling source of wealth as a result, and Jin Sanye is the broker of this kind of transaction, which is very popular with the generals of the army below.

Zhang Li invited the two of them into the big tent and sat down, and said with a frank smile: "The third master came a little earlier this time, if it is a little later, I will have a batch of bows and crossbows, about three hundred." ”

Jin Sanye pointed at Li Fu, "This time Li Ye has a business that he wants to talk to the general, if it is done, at least one thousand taels of gold will be paid." ”

Zhang Li perked up and said with a smile: "Although Master Li said clearly, we don't have any taboos here. ”

Li Fu saw that he was the general of the Cao army, but he did not hide his greed, and he couldn't help but be secretly vigilant in his heart, this kind of person forgot his righteousness when he saw profit, and he had to be careful. “

Li Fu said with a smile: "Someone wants to buy a batch of hot oil, about three hundred barrels, each barrel is priced at three taels of gold, and when the thing is done, the oil buyer will pay me another one hundred taels of honorarium, and it is no longer in the oil price, that is, all the nine hundred taels of gold will go to the general, how about it?" ”

This price is very good, generally two taels of gold a barrel, and now the price is actually three taels, but Zhang Li's face still shows embarrassment, "Don't hide it from Li Ye, this matter is a bit difficult, fire oil is the most important material for Cao Jun, last time I sold fifty barrels to the third master, and in the end I couldn't explain, I could only burn a warehouse to cover up, this time it was difficult, and our military camp only has a total of 1,000 barrels of oil oil, the governor will send people to inspect the camp every month, the quantity of oil must be counted, if there are less than 300 barrels, how can I explain?" Li Fu smiled: "General doesn't want to know what Yao Wu under Yu Ban did?" ”

Zhang Li was stunned, Yao Wu was Yu Ban's henchman, stationed in Yicheng County, could he also do this kind of thing?

Li Fu understood his thoughts, nodded and said, "I also bought three hundred barrels of fire oil from Yao Wu. ”

Zhang Li hugged his fists and said: "I want to hear it in detail!" ”

"Yao Wu took half of each of the 600 barrels of fire oil to make 300 barrels of fire oil, and then poured water into the oil barrels, and the oil was on and under the water, even if it was spot-checked, it could not be detected."

Zhang Li suddenly realized that this was indeed a good way, but the amount of three hundred barrels of oil was large, so he needed to be cautious, and he asked again: "I don't know who is planning to buy oil oil, can Master Li tell me?" ”

"I don't hide it from the general, it's the Black Flag Army of the Yangtze River Water Thieves."

Zhang Li suddenly realized that it was the Black Flag Army, he knew that this water thief was entrenched in the area of Dongting Lake in Changsha County, and the leader was nicknamed the Dragon King of the Mixed River, if they wanted it, it would be right, because the Han army was not short of fire oil, and generally did not need it.

He groaned and asked, "I don't know when I want the goods?" ”

"Half a month later, can you pay the money with one hand and deliver the goods with the other?"

Zhang Li heard that half a month later, he suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, ten days later, Xuzhou Zhao Sima will come to the barracks to inspect, will definitely count the oil, half a month is just the end of the inventory.

"Okay, we'll make up our minds!"

Li Fu and Jin Sanye left the barracks, and halfway through, Li Fu said with emotion: "The big war is coming, and this Zhang Li actually dares to sell military supplies privately, which is really eye-opening." ”

Jin Sanye smiled, "Li Ye is joking, you have been in Yedu for a long time, have you seen few of those Cao Wei ministers?" There are a few more loyal, I'm afraid that even Chen Qun and Hua Xin may not be reliable, not to mention people like Zhang Li, who were born as thieves, for them, life is only eight words, people are not for themselves, heaven and earth will be destroyed, and everything else is fake. ”

"That's right, Cao Cao didn't believe in his generals, and let the Cao clan and the Xiahou clan lead the army."

"That's the reason, so I know Zhang Li very well and know that he will agree, but I have to take my time and slowly lead him to the trick."

Li Fu nodded, Jin Sanye was reasonable, this matter really can't be rushed.

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