After half a month's drive, Lu Rui finally returned to Fan County, at this time, Fan County, under the governance of Guoyuan and Xu Shu, has begun to take shape, there are already markets in the new city and some small handicraftsmen have begun to do small business in Fan County to make a living, Lu Rui is very happy to see all this, because business is the foundation of a prosperous city.

Lu Rui returned to his Hou Ye's mansion, and all the officials came to visit Lu Rui and report to Lu Rui about his achievements in the past few months, although Lu Rui is still young, but the report still has to be done, and Lu Rui's intelligence is extraordinary, they don't dare to fool around, if something goes wrong, Lu Rui still has a lot of ways to punish people!

Guoyuan's focus in these months is still to collect the displaced people and tuntian, collect a lot of nearby yellow turban homeless, and at the same time draw out the training of strong men, the strength of almost supplemented into the county's official service, the extraordinary strength of the army has been enriched, at the same time, in order to reduce the pressure of the people's tuntian, Guoyuan also implemented the military tun, the fertile land near Fan County was distributed to the soldiers tuntian, in addition to paying taxes, it can also provide food to the soldiers' homes, which greatly improved the enthusiasm of the soldiers.

Lu Rui still agrees with Guoyuan's approach, his army only needs to defend, Juntun is indeed very suitable, because the fields of Juntun generally belong to the sergeant's family, if there is an enemy to attack Fan County, in order to protect their fields, they must be desperate!

Subsequently, Ma Jun began to report his work to Lu Ruiyu for a few months, and Ma Jun first improved a lot of farm tools, which doubled the production efficiency and increased the output of grain and crops. Now Van County has started to build large barns to store excess food. According to historical records, the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty was an era of food shortage, and the soldiers and horses recruited by Cao Cao in Danyang were disbanded because of no food, Ma Jun can make Fan County not only self-sufficient, but also have excess grain, this is not simple, the current Han Dynasty, it is estimated that Fan County can do it!

Secondly, Ma Jun also arranged a lot of semi-automatic defensive bows and crossbows and equipment on the city tower, which could help the defenders to defend, and Ma Jun also invented a new city gate to resist the attack of general siege equipment. Lu Rui nodded after hearing this, and expressed his appreciation, Ma Jun's invention Lu Rui is still very relieved, it is recorded in history that after Ma Jun saw Zhuge Liang's repeater, he immediately improved it, and improved the performance of the repeater several times, if it weren't for the Cao Wei regime not paying attention to it, I'm afraid Xiao Zhuge would be shot by random arrows!

Just when Lu Rui listened to everyone's report, suddenly, the guard who guarded the door reported that some Xuzhou businessmen asked to see, one named Chen Ying, the other named Mi Fang, the two came on behalf of the Chen family and the Mi family in Xuzhou, hoping to discuss the commercial development of Fan County with Lu Rui.

When Lu Rui heard this, he was stunned for a moment, Mi Zhu and Chen Deng are still quite good at doing business, and they have just got the tax policy, and they are going to come to my Fan County to enclose land? Hehe, just right, this is in my arms, and I want your investment in my Fan County to go and have no return!

Lu Rui waved his hand, signaling that he could bring the two to the Taishou Mansion, and soon, the two were taken to the Taishou Mansion. After Chen Ying and Mi Fang saw Lu Rui, they arched their hands and bowed: "See the Marquis of Qi!" ”

After Lu Rui signaled that the two could sit down, the two arched their hands and sat down separately. At this time, Lu Rui looked at the two, Mi Fang, Lu Rui has already seen in Xuzhou, he is a martial artist, skilled in bows and horses, and is a qualified general, but Chen Ying, Lu Rui has never seen it, as Chen Deng's other son, there are not many records in history, but Lu Rui inferred that he should have inherited the business of the Chen family, and according to the rules of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the descendants will generally be divided into two categories: business and government.

Guo Yuan looked at the two of them, arched his hand and said, "Guo Guoyuan, the prime minister of Qi Guoyuan, I have seen the two!" ”

The two immediately replied: "I've seen the people of the country!" The two of them knew that although Lu Rui was smart, he was still young, and in fact, the manager of Fan County was Guoyuan, and of course he had to be respectful to Guoyuan.

Subsequently, Mi Fang first complimented Lu Rui, saying that Lu Rui left Xuzhou in a hurry, and did not let the two families fulfill the friendship of the landlords, and today he came to ask Lu Rui for guilt, and at the same time Lu Rui agreed to the two families to pass the customs and pay taxes in Fan County, and now the two are on behalf of the two families to discuss specific matters.

After seeing Mi Fang and Lu Ruike, Chen Ying arched his hand and said: "The Marquis of Qi allowed our two goods to clear customs here, our Chen family and the Mi family are very grateful, in order to thank the Hou Ye for his love, our two families decided to invest here and build a business workshop, please Hou Ye's permission!" ”

When Lu Rui heard it, hum, the Chen family and the Mi family are really big businessmen, so quickly thought of this trick, taking advantage of the cheap land price in Fan County, buying and building real estate first, and when Fan County is prosperous, they will invisibly save costs, and it is possible to make a lot of money when the land price rises, it is really not simple!

Lu Rui looked at Guoyuan, Guoyuan, nodded and said: "Two, since it is an investment, we first need to buy land, our Fan County will hold a public bidding meeting for land purchase after March, and please wait in Fan County, how about buying land after March?" ”

The two glanced at each other and said, "Thank you, Master Hou, we are waiting for the bidding meeting for the purchase of land in Fan County!" After speaking, the two presented the gifts of the two families and left the Hou Ye's mansion.

Guoyuan looked at Xin Bi and asked, "George?" What Mi Fang and Chen Ying said about taxation is the truth? "A penny? Too little!

Xin Bi smiled and said, "Zini, the two of them are right, this is the contract that Hou Ye signed with them. With that, Simbi handed the contract to Guoyuan.

Guo Yuan looked at it, was stunned, and asked suspiciously: "Master Hou?" It only cleared customs and taxes in the first month, didn't it? ”

Lu Rui waved some fists and said, "Little Nini, you are so stupid!" ”

Xin Bi took out a stack of papers from his bosom and said, "Zi Ni, Yuan Zhi, this is the tax in two years!" ”

After Guo Yuan and Xu Shu saw it, they were stunned, and then arched their hands and said, "Hou Ye is smart!" ”

Lu Rui said excitedly: "Hehe, this is the secret I discovered from studying arithmetic in "Huainanzi", how about it, amazing!" ”

The two arched their hands and said, "Master Hou is really talented and smart, different from mortals!" "Huainanzi" is an ancient book that introduces mathematics, but it is just some simple mathematics. That's a long way off!

Guo Yuan thought for a while and said, "Master Hou, now that the Chen family and the Mi family in Xuzhou have come to buy land, is our price too low?" Do you want to send someone to attend? Raise the price of land? ”

Xu Shu immediately stood up and objected: "Zini, even if we send people to participate, it will cost the money of our Hou Ye's mansion, I'm afraid this won't work, and both of them are big businessmen, I'm afraid that the assets in the mansion are insufficient?" ”

Lu Rui looked at the two of them, and smiled in his heart, he is worthy of being a wise man in ancient times, and he looks at the problem very carefully, but unfortunately, I haven't studied modern economics, let me teach you. Lu Rui waved his fist and said: "Little Nini, Xiao Xuxu, are you too stupid, during the Chinese New Year, the people near Qian County knew that there was a market in the county, so they all came to buy things, the Cao family's shop made a lot of money, you don't want to think of a way, why can the Cao family make money?" Our Mansion of the Marquis of Qi State, can't make money? ”

When the two of them heard this, they were stunned for a moment and fell into deep thought, and Xin Bi arched his hand and said: "Hou Ye means to let us inform the world of the contract with Xuzhou and lead the world's merchants to compete?" Raise the price of our land? ”

Lu Rui smiled, hehe, Xinbi still has a business mind, it is worthy of a family that started in business, and it can be done at one point! After listening to Xin Bi's words, Xu Shu and Guoyuan suddenly realized, and then arched their hands and said, "George is talented, I admire it!" ”

Lu Rui saw that the three of them had understood what to do, so he motioned for them to go down, and then Lu Rui ran back to his backyard, hehe, I haven't pinched Ling'er's face for a long time, go pinch that little girl first!

The next day, the Marquis of Qi in Fan County began to implement Lu Rui's plan. Xu Shu began to send secret agents to publicize the content of the contract between Lu Rui and the Chen family and the Mi family in Xuzhou all over the Han Dynasty, of course, it was only through secret rumors. The contract says that the contents are not allowed to be leaked, but the gossip is out of control!

At the same time, Guoyuan issued a statement in the name of Lu Rui, the Marquis of Qi, the content of which was that Lu Rui took over Fan County, and felt that after the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Fan County was in tatters, and Lu Rui wanted to govern Fan County and prosper Fan County. The Marquis of Qi's Mansion decided to invest in the construction of a merchant shop in Fan County, imitating the merchant shop in Linzi, the capital of Qi, one of the Seven Heroes of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, to revitalize Fan County!

As soon as this statement came out, it did not cause too many repercussions in the imperial court, after all, it is the matter of a Hou Ye to govern his own fiefdom and promote local development, and now that Dong Zhuo is in chaos, not many people will pay attention to any expression of a Hou Ye. However, this statement had a great impact on the merchants of the Han Dynasty and the business-oriented families, coupled with the gossip that the contract between Lu Rui and the Xuzhou Mi family and the Chen family made many families with commercial operations ready to move. Hebei Zhen family, Jiangdong Gu family, Lu family, Zhu family, Zhang family. Jingzhou Huang family, Cai family, Zhang family, Pang family. The Wei family in Hedong, the Zhang family in Hanzhong, the Lu family in Huainan, and the Zhao family in Xichuan all sent their own representatives. Some big businessmen also began to come to Fan County.

After March, Chen Ying and Mi Zhu came to the Hou Ye's Mansion to inquire about the bidding meeting for the purchase of land. As soon as they arrived at the Hou Ye's mansion, the two of them were stunned, there are a lot of old acquaintances here, Chen Ying is fine, Mi Zhu is sweating profusely, these people are all famous businessmen of the Han Dynasty and some famous businessmen from all over the world, why did they all come to Fan County?

The two entered the Hou Ye's mansion to meet Lu Rui, but were told that Lu Rui was not in the mansion and went hunting in the suburbs, and the bidding for the purchase of land would be postponed for a month, so they sent the two back. For several days in a row, both of them got such a result, and they had no choice but to return to the inn.

Mi Fang looked at Chen Ying and said, "Brother Chen, what do you mean by looking at the Hou Ye's mansion?" ”

Chen Ying sneered and said: "Hmph, we are too underestimated to look down on the Marquis of Qiguo's mansion, although Lu Rui is small, but there are many resourceful people around him, there must be a master who gives Lu Rui a plan, recruits businessmen from all over the world, comes to Fan County, and raises the land price!" ”

Mi Fang thought for a while, combined with the news she received recently, and then said, "Hmph, isn't Lu Rui treacherous?" The contents of the contract with us are not confidential? ”

Chen Ying took a sip of tea, shook his head and said, "This is a rumor, what can we do with Lu Rui?" If we investigate, Lu Rui can also bite us back, saying that our people leaked it. At that time, I'm afraid I won't even be able to get a piece of land in Fan County! ”

Mi Fang nodded, and then said, "Are we still staying here?" Continue to buy land? ”

Chen Ying took out the map, looked at it and said, "Stay, even if there are families from all walks of life coming here, we will take root here!" Fan County, the geographical location is too important! ”

Mi Fang saw that Chen Ying was so resolute, it was not easy to explain to Mi Zhu when he went back alone, when Mi Fang came to Fan County, Mi Zhu confessed that he would take root in Fan County at all costs and purchase industries!

In the days when Chen Ying and Mi Fang were waiting, many families and businessmen who came from the Han Dynasty signed the so-called penny tax with Lu Rui, and everyone happily waited in Fan County, waiting for the bidding meeting for the purchase of land, and in the fourth month, finally the bidding meeting for the land in Fan County began.

Lu Rui wore the costume of the Hou Ye for the second time and came to the scene of the bidding meeting, the first time was when he saw Emperor Ling of Han in Luoyang.

Lu Rui looked at the group of black heads below, and laughed wildly in his heart, a group of stupid people, a group of stupid people, two years, two years later, let you know how good I am, Lu Rui just sat honestly on the stage, and the rest of the things were handled by Guoyuan and spoke on behalf of Lu Rui, after three hours of fierce bidding, many families got their favorite properties.

At night, Lu Rui counted the rare treasures sent by various families and merchants, laughing, the ancients did not deceive me, their own little tricks, there is such a big benefit, this is much easier than robbing, no, this is a robbery, it is a civilized robbery!

Chen Ying and Mi Fang returned to the inn, Chen Ying shook his head and said, "It's a pity, four months ago, it was still a vacant land, but now it is a number of buildings, we have wasted a lot of money!" ”

Mi Fang nodded, it is true, it was still vacant land four months ago, and four months later, Lu Rui had already built a house on vacant land, and selling a house was of course more expensive than selling vacant land, and there were so many more competitors. Mi Fang looked at Chen Ying, and could only comfort: "Brother Chen, don't worry, we have a tax contract, and we can be regarded as earning!" ”

Chen Ying nodded and said, "Yes, the annual tax payment is only more than 3,000 yuan, which is really worth it!" ”

The rest of the Han families and businessmen were very satisfied with the contract signed with Lu Rui, although they spent a lot of money to buy real estate, but it was worth it! However, it was not until two years later that they all found out that this was a loss-making transaction, and they lost a lot of money!

Just when Lu Rui was selling land in Fan County, in the Taishou Mansion of Bohai County, Tian Feng looked at the information sent by the secret agent, and said to himself: "Fan County Merchant Workshop? Is it another trap? What does the master behind Lu Rui want to do? Business boom? Money? Support Cao Cao? Hehe, it seems that Cao Mengde is not simple, and he also arranged a master by Lu Rui's side, named Lu Rui, to do things, in fact, to raise military salaries for himself? ”

Thinking of this, Tian Feng walked out of the study and looked at the sky: Cao Mengde, you will be my lord in the future!

At this time, Cao Cao, who was about to go to Dongjun to pacify the Yellow Turban, sneezed, Cao Cao wiped his nose, someone cursed me?