Of course, Lu Bu is not crazy, but is more sober and far-sighted than the rest of the world.

Even if he is as wise as Jia Xu and elegant as Cai Yong, many times he can only be dumbfounded by Lu Bu's various whimsical ideas, but once explained, he can't help but be amazed, especially Jia Xu, who does not have the inherent dead brains of the Central Plains scholars, so he can always quickly understand Lu Bu's thoughts, and is deeply shocked by these ideas that are so well versed in human nature.

According to the custom, when caravans pass through the city, they need to pay a lot of customs duties, some of which are set by the imperial court, and most of them are set up by the local government. Therefore, the longer the distance, the more expensive it is on the road, although the tariff of one city and one customs is inconspicuous, it can be accumulated and is not a small amount.

Therefore, unless there is a multiple-fold price difference between one entry and one exit, otherwise, the caravan may lose money if it travels a long distance.

Now, Lu Bu has simplified it to a one-time tax on entry and exit, as well as the business tax paid by the seller, which is equivalent to reducing all customs duties in the counties and counties under his jurisdiction, and such a move will definitely think that he is crazy at first glance.

At the beginning, in order to convince the people under his account, Lu Bu didn't bother to speak, Zuihou, or he could only rely on his power to forcibly push this matter down.

The people here are all businessmen who have been walking around for many years, looking for business opportunities, how significant this move is to them, just as soon as they heard it, they immediately understood, it was precisely because they couldn't imagine that there was such a good thing in the world, so they were so dumbfounded, so unbelievable, thinking that Lu Bu was crazy.

Lu Bu's reaction to this was to smile indifferently and say, "Lu Mou knows that you don't believe it, so you should respond to the official document." It has been passed to the counties and counties under the jurisdiction of Lu, and from now on, it will be implemented unconditionally in various places, believe it or not, you will understand when you go on a trip. Okay, if you have any questions, you can contact Hou Cheng, and Lu will take the first step. ”

After speaking, Lu Bu nodded to everyone. That is, he turned around and left with everyone, and after a while, Hou Cheng and Yan just returned, and before they entered the hall, they heard the voices of people inside. It's very lively.

The two looked at each other and stopped in unison. Jun Jue went in at this time. Not wise.

"General, what the lord said, but is it true?"

When Yan Gang first met Lu Bu, according to the rules of the Yan family, he called him his uncle, and now the Yin Pavilion has returned to Lu Bu's jurisdiction. He also changed his name, on par with Hou Cheng and others, and called Lu Bu the main father.

Hou Cheng smiled a little bitterly, nodded and replied, "Of course it's true." What kind of person is the lord, a word is out, the horse is difficult to chase, although I still have some incomprehension about this, but the lord said, this matter, understand to implement, do not understand, even more to implement, so you and I ......"

Watching Hou Cheng's fingers pointing back and forth between the two, Yan Gang of course understood, and replied: "Of course, the lord's order, I will do my best to carry it out as a subordinate." It's just that, alas, in this way, how much less tariffs will be charged. ”

Hou Cheng patted Yan Gang on the shoulder with some sympathy, and said with a wry smile: "This, we have all put it forward, but the lord said that this is called small profits and quick turnover, at this time, it is to reduce what logistics costs and attract more caravans. ”

"Things, things, logistics ......?"

Yan Gang felt as if his tongue was knotted, he understood things and flows, but when they were put together, he didn't understand.

"It is the goods transported by caravans, like water, that flow from place to place, so it is called a thing...... Stream, you know? ”

Hou Cheng copied what Lu Bu once said, and the feeling at this moment made him have a lot of face, and at the same time he was very emotional, how did the lord think of this word, such an image, so appropriate.

While Hou Cheng and Yan Gang were discussing these issues, Lu Bu had already led a large army and embarked on the journey again, leaving only five hundred elite horsemen here in the Yin Pavilion, waiting for the arrival of the rear army of Commander Gao Shun.

In the military operation launched this time to recover the northern land of Yanmen County, Lu Bu invested a large number of troops, only 4,000 elite cavalry, all of which were invested, and 3,000 elite infantry soldiers were also invested as the rear army, commanded by Gao Shun.

The total strength of his current account is 4,000 elite cavalry, 8,000 elite foot soldiers, and 10,000 garrisons. Among them, the garrison army was stationed in the northern part of Hedong County, Gaodu, Shangdang, Taiyuan and Yanmen, while the 8,000 elite infantry soldiers were divided into two battalions and stationed in Taiyuan and Jiexiu, in order to quickly rush to the aid of various places.

What Lu Bu Bingfeng pointed out was Mayi, which was more than 100 miles away from the Yin Pavilion, which was a major town outside Yanmen Pass and the hometown of the pioneer general Zhang Liao.

The Datong Basin outside Yanmen Pass is the name of Lu Buyi's later generations, and there is no Datong Basin at this time, and the Taiyuan Basin where Taiyuan is located, it also belongs to the flat river valley between the valleys.

The shape is like a three-legged tripod, one foot, that is, a horse; the other foot, that is, along the water control (PS: Sanggan River) and set up the four cities of Wangtao, Juyang, Fanzhi and Laoxian; The farther foot is Pingcheng, which is the Datong of later generations.

Ma Yi goes northwest less than a hundred miles, that is, Wuzhou Sai, which is the throat of the enemy who guards from the clouds and Dingxiang. From the four cities of Wang Tao and Juyang, through a steep valley, you can reach Pingshu City in Youzhou Dai County, and then you can follow the Flying Fox Trail and go east out of Zhongshan Country in Jizhou; From Pingcheng to the east, along the valley road, you can go deep into the area of Takayanagi in Daigun, and then arrive at Zhuolu in Shanggu County, Youzhou.

Therefore, the cities where the three legs are located have always been a place where soldiers must fight, and now they are occupied by the Xianbei tribes, which means that the Xianbei iron cavalry has the advance base for the southern invasion and eastward advance.

Fortunately, at this time, as Jia Xu analyzed, although Lu Bu was not fully prepared, the Xianbei tribes had not recovered from the disputes of the various tribes of Tanshi Huai's death, and all the divisions were scattered, and it was difficult to unite together, which was a good time to encroach.

Lu Bu also clearly remembered that in history, in the next twenty or thirty years, it was the time when the Central Plains was in turmoil and the princes were fighting each other, and when Cao Wei unified the north, the Xianbei tribes had also recovered.

The so-called encroachment does not only refer to the gnawing of the Han hometown outside the Yanmen Pass little by little, but also refers to the grassland nomadic tribes such as Xianbei little by little. Wear, strangle, fuse, assimilate.

And more importantly, what Lu Bu wants to change, is to stimulate the ambition and motivation of the Han people to expand outward, which is the ultimate version of the cannibalization strategy, which can be passed down from generation to generation for decades, or even centuries. And eventually radically change something.

Lu Bu rode a red rabbit horse, leading the army to gallop, while thinking about these far-reaching and grand questions on the horseback, more than two hours later, the sun gradually rose to the sky. Mayi has appeared on the distant horizon.

Several horsemen quickly rushed forward, and Lu Bu ordered the army to rest on the spot. After a while. The number of horsemen came to him, and it was Cao Xing, who personally led the scout camp out of Yanmen Pass one step earlier.

"My lord, Zhang Liao has led the elite cavalry to besiege the four gates of Mayi, and the Xianbei defenders should have sent out the military information."

As soon as Cao Xing stopped his horse beside Lu Bu, he reported loudly, surrounded by Lu Bu's personal guards. There is no problem with loyalty, and there is no risk of anyone leaking it.

"Good!"

Lu Bu set his eyes on Mayi City in the distance, and after a while, he retracted it. said to Cao Xing: "In this way, Xianbei has been prepared for a long time, but I don't know if it will be the fundamental person of Budu, or who it is." ”

After a pause, Lu Bu ordered: "Send someone to inform Gao Shun, let him act according to the original plan, and be fully prepared." ”

"No!"

Cao Xuan promised loudly, with a wave of his hand, the three of them had already prepared to be a scout, and galloped out of the horse, one in front and two behind, hundreds of steps apart, galloping in the direction of the Yin Pavilion.

The army set off again, less than half an hour, that is, came to the outside of the city of Mayi, Zhang Liao has been ten miles outside the city, set up a camp, a thousand fine horsemen, divided into two groups of 500 people each, one group stayed in the camp, one group was divided into several teams, two or three miles away from the four city gates of Mayi, people dismounted, rested on the spot, and monitored the movement of the city gates.

On the outskirts, there is Cao Xing's scout camp, which spreads out for dozens of miles, and is divided into several layers inside and outside, and can be transmitted back in time as soon as there is a warning signal.

Lu Bu directly led the army into the camp, expanded the camp, and arranged the surrounding defenses, but the baggage and materials brought by the army were limited, so he could only slightly arrange some equipment around the camp to guard and hinder the elite cavalry, such as rejecting horses, iron thorns, spears, and so on.

The gate of Mayi is closed, and the flag fluttering on the city wall is the banner of Xianbei characteristics, which is different from the Han Dynasty at a glance, and there are not many soldiers guarding it, which can be said to be weaker than the Central Plains City.

But even so, if Lu Bu wanted to use fine cavalry to attack the city, even if there were only some old, weak, sick and disabled people in the city, he was unwilling to do so, because he had been in the border county for a long time, and had dealt with the Xianbei tribes for many years, and knew that fighting with the Xianbei tribes could not use the thinking mode of the Han people, but the thinking mode of the nomadic tribes used by the Xianbei tribes.

The gains and losses of one city and one place are meaningless to the Xianbei tribes who are accustomed to cavalry combat, and even the base camps of the Xianbei tribes have no fixed residence, but with nomadism, they migrate around, as long as the tribes and tribes have no losses, even if the army is defeated, it will not have much impact.

Because for the Xianbei tribes, it is a big deal, roll up all the tents, the old women and children all get on the horses, like a gust of wind, migrate to the depths of the prairie, accumulate strength, and after a few years, if they are not attached to other tribes, or are forcibly annexed by other tribes, they can also recover their vitality.

The vast prairie, vast, magnificent, and desolate, harsh, the Huns who live here, whether they are Xianbei, all have a wolf nature from the bones, cruel, cunning, patient, strong, if you want to make such opponents surrender, you must be more cruel, more cunning, more patient, stronger, and more good at using the iron hooves of fine riding to crush them into obedience.

So from the very beginning, Lu Bu never thought about attacking the city at all, even if the rear army led by Gao Shun was all foot soldiers, and he didn't bring siege equipment at all, what he wanted to do was to send troops to Yanmen Pass, through the siege of the city, and shout to the Xianbei tribes entrenched here: Come on, Lu Bu is here! (To be continued......)

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