Cao Cao's spies soon got the exact news from Liaodong, and it was indeed our Royal Highness the King of Shu, Liu Mang, who had traveled thousands of miles from Yangzhou to support the friendly forces, and transported those weapons, armor, grain and grass to Liaodong, and our Liaodong prince Sun Du acted as one of the second dealers.

As for the so-called title of King of Liaodong that Cao Cao sent to Gongsun Du of Liaodong, it was also put aside by Gongsun Du, because no matter how good the title is, it is all false, and there is no such gold as refreshing.

This Yuan family brother is really a rich-level figure, and in a blink of an eye, the transaction with Yangzhou has reached the limit of two million gold, and his grandson Du has also received a reward of nearly 300,000 gold.

These are real benefits, white gold, your Lao Cao is just a chapter of appointment, why do I have to help you play with your life, if I help you with this money. The money lost in the business, you Lao Cao will give it.

However, Liaodong Gongsun Du is also a person who can be regarded as a person, although he does business with the Yuan brothers, but he does not directly refuse Cao Cao, puts Cao Cao's envoy aside and entertains him well, and even brings it to his mansion from time to time to attend dinners, but he never mentions Cao Cao's brushing of him.

Let Cao Cao be simply angry, and even Cao Cao listened to Guo Jia's construction to see if he could buy some new armor and weapons from the hands of Gongsun Du, the prince of Liaodong, and even the price he gave was higher than the price of the Yuan brothers, after all, Cao Cao is now a tyrant-level figure, and Cao Cao's price is indeed exciting to Gongsun Du, but unfortunately, our envoy of His Royal Highness the King of Shu also thought of this. warned our King of Liaodong. If you find the slightest weapon armor on the battlefield that Cao Cao used on the battlefield. Then directly cut off the sea trade with Liaodong, so that Gongsun Du still dismissed this plan to abandon the basics, after all, Liu Mang, the king of Shu, is the supplier.

If Liu Mang revoked this trade in a fit of rage, then who would his grandson find to cry.

Therefore, Gongsun Du did not sell the slightest weapon and armor to Cao Cao, which made Cao Cao angry.

The Yuan brothers relied on the weapons sold by the Yangzhou army in their hands to block Cao Cao's several attacks, which made Cao Cao's face more and more pale, and the scholars in Jizhou and Hebei also began to make small moves.

Cao Cao's army camp. Cao Cao sat down, and the general was reporting.

Listening to the reports of the people under his hands, Cao Cao almost pulled out the war knife in his hand.

This is already the fifth, and there are people from Jizhou who actually transported grain, grass and money from Jizhou to Youzhou, in order to support the Yuan brothers, how can Cao Cao endure it.

"Damn, damn!" Cao Cao shouted angrily, "I'm going to kill them, kill them." ”

Cao Cao is not stupid, aren't those who are under the banner of a caravan just delivering supplies to Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang. "Come on, take down all five families and put them in prison for me!"

"Lord, now is not the time!" Guo Jia stood on the side and stopped Cao Cao. These clans. Guo Jia also wanted to help Cao Cao destroy them, because these individuals no longer had the concept of a home and a country. It can even be said that if the foreign tribe gives them more, they will immediately be able to rebel against Cao Cao, Guo Jia is also angry, but he also knows that these individuals can't be killed now, and it is easy to do it once they start, but one result of this is that the entire Jizhou and Cao Cao are separated from morality. At that time, there will be more people who will sponsor the Yuan brothers.

"This can't be killed, that can't be killed, so what!" Cao Cao was angry, and even Guo Jia didn't give a good face.

"General Zhang He, you are familiar with the terrain of Youzhou, and please send the Euphorbia to act as a scout to block all the caravans passing through Youzhou from Jizhou." Guo Jia was going to disperse Zhang He's heavy cavalry and act as scouts to stop the caravans in Jizhou.

"Yes!" Zhang He hugged his fists and left, his halberd warrior was indeed a generation familiar with Youzhou.

"Even if Zhang He's halberd warrior can catch how much?" Cao Cao said angrily, there are thousands of miles of land in Youzhou and Jizhou, and there are only 5,000 people in this euphorbia, how can it be possible to do it without leakage. Guo Jia's method is just doing his best.

"It would be nice if Ziyuan was still here!" Cao Cao even had such an idea, that is, if Xu You didn't die, how good it would be, because Xu You pressed those Jizhou scholars, and those scholars would not be so rampant, and now one of the reasons why they jumped out is that Xu You is dead, they are weak-hearted, for fear that Cao Cao will find them to settle accounts after the autumn, you see that even Cao Cao's hair like Xu You was killed by Cao Cao, and they had a good end for Cao Cao, so it is better to take the risk to find their former master.

Guo Jia not only did not get angry when he heard Cao Cao's words, but smiled, "Lord, Mr. Ziyuan naturally has the benefits of Mr. Ziyuan when he is alive, and he also has the benefits of death when he dies." ”

"Yes!" Cao Cao looked at Guo Jia suspiciously.

Xu You Xu Ziyuan was killed, so no one dared to challenge Cao Cao's dignity, so that Cao Cao slowly rose from an ordinary person to a god's perspective, just like an emperor, an emperor, approachable once or twice, it's okay, if you are always approachable, it will naturally give everyone an illusion, that is, the emperor is also an ordinary person, and it slowly evolved, since the emperor is an ordinary person, why can't we do it.

And now Xu You is destroying the rhythm that made Cao Cao become a god, how could Guo Jia let him go. Xu You died, and some individuals' awe of Cao Cao returned, and they naturally didn't dare to make any changes, for example, some people in Xu Du, Yanzhou Zhili became more stable, and the disadvantage was that some individuals in Jizhou moved.

Guo Jia looked at Cao Cao and was still thinking about the pros and cons, and another sentence completely dispelled Cao Cao's considerations: "Lord, this Hebei war is so chaotic, all industries are waiting to be prosperous, and if you want to become the prosperous northern granary again, you need more money than one or two points." ”

Guo Jia's words made Cao Cao feel a little moved.

"And now that these people are out, we have the money." Guo Jia said very indifferently, it turns out that our Guo Jia Guo sacrifice wine has already begun to plan for the livelihood of Hebei in the future. Hebei Jiuli war. When the Yuan brothers left Jizhou and merged with the state, it was another raid. It can be said that the granary of the original north has now become a desolate place, if you want to restore the glory of the past, you must invest a large amount of money in it, Cao Cao pacified the north, and you also need to wave the army to the south, a large amount of money must be invested in the army, where is the excess money to develop Hebei.

And now these Jizhou scholars have jumped out, it is different, Guo Jia's original plan was to use the money of these Jizhou scholars to develop Hebei. It's just that I've been suffering, and there's no excuse.

But now it's okay, this excuse has been sent to Cao Cao's hands by them, and these five Cao Cao families will inevitably be liquidated after the war. After destroying these five scholars, and then killing chickens and monkeys, the other Jizhou scholars could only pinch their noses and pay money. I'm afraid I won't have any money when the time comes.

"Ziyuan, you are really my loyal minister." Cao Cao said to Xu You, who had already been reincarnated.

Cao Cao's army began to attack the city again, although the Yuan brothers had new weapons and armor, but after all, they were not equipped by the whole army, and Cao Cao had an army of 300,000 troops, and the Yuan brothers needed to defend too many places.

The battle line pulls down. There is war everywhere in Youzhou.

Over there, the Yuan family army annihilated Cao Cao's 10,000-strong team with new weapons and armor, and soon Cao Cao counterattacked. Relying on the superiority in numbers, he annihilated a camp of Yuan's army.

"Ahem!" Guo Jia stood in the cold wind and coughed. Cao Cao on the side was very worried.

Guo Jia is looking at the city over there, Cao Cao's 300,000 army has been fighting for more than a month, but he has only taken five cities in Youzhou, and they are all small county towns, if he really takes Youzhou, when will it be, Cao Cao's army will lose 30,000 or 40,000, and it will not work like this.

"Brother Yuan, Gongsun Du, Liu Mang, King of Shu!" Guo Jia thought about these three forces in his heart.

That's right, the current Cao Jun is not fighting with one person at all, but playing with these three forces, Yangzhou Liu Mang sells weapons and armor, Gongsun Du sells grain and grass, and with the support of these two forces, the Yuan family brothers have been able to hold on to this Cheng dù until now.

"Fengxiao, you better go back, it's windy outside!" Cao Cao stepped forward and said to Guo Jia with concern, and even took off the mink fur on his body and draped it on Guo Jia's body.

"Thank you for your concern!" Guo Jia smiled at Cao Cao, "Jia, it doesn't matter. ”

"The hundred-legged insect is dead but not stiff, I didn't expect that the second son of my original brother would be such a talent!" Cao Cao also sighed, originally Yuan Shao's two sons Cao Cao didn't look at it at all, what is the use of the two who only know the things in the nest? If Cao Cao hadn't been there, I'm afraid the two brothers would have been able to play themselves to death.

But what Cao Cao didn't expect was that Yuan Xi, the second son of Yuan Shao, who had been silent, suddenly shined.

It can be said that to be able to fight the defense of Youzhou like this, this Yuan Xi is definitely a talent, you must know that Yuan Xi is facing Cao Cao's top strategist Guo Jia and others.

"If the heir set by the original brother was this Yuan Xi, I'm afraid that my Cao Cao would not have today!" Cao Cao also smiled, who knows about the impermanence of the world, just like when Cao Cao was in the battle of Guandu, who would have thought that he Cao Cao would win.

"Lord, what did you just say?" Guo Jia suddenly grasped the message in Cao Cao's words.

"I said the world is impermanent, huh?" Cao Cao asked suspiciously.

"Not this one!" Guo Jia shook his head.

"Brother Ben's heir is Yuan Xi!" Cao Cao had repeated.

"Yes, that's it!" Guo Jia's eyes lit up.

'What's wrong?' Cao Cao asked suspiciously.

"My lord, who is the commander of the army on the other side now?" Guo Jia asked Cao Cao with a smile.

"The commander of the army? Naturally, it's Yuan Xi. "Cao Cao and this Yuan family army have been fighting for so long, so I don't know who the commander of this army is.

"No!" Guo Jia shook his head and vetoed Cao Cao's words: "This commander is not Yuan Xi. ”

"It's not Yuan Xi, then who is it?"

"To be precise, this commander is a compromise between Yuan Shang and Yuan Tan." Guo Jia said to Cao Cao.

Yuan Xi's strength is the weakest among the three brothers, and it is no wonder that Yuan Tan is Yuan Shao's eldest son, and Yuan Shang is Yuan Shao's favorite youngest son, these two sons naturally occupy 80% of Yuan Shao's strength, and Yuan Xi can get 10% of the inheritance at most.

So now the main strength of the Yuan family army is still the soldiers and horses of Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang. Yuan Xi can be this commander because Yuan Shang and Yuan Tan are not convinced by anyone, and Yuan Xi can be made this commander under compromise.

"My lord. In my army. Your words. Then it must be firmly implemented, but our commander Yuan Xi is not like this. Guo Jia said to Cao Cao: "Do you remember the first time you persecuted Youzhou?" Guo Jia reminded Cao Cao, "Obviously, the Yuan family army can bite down Xu You's army and flee away after a mouthful, and exchange the smallest price for the greatest benefit, but over there, the Yuan family army suddenly lost his head and rushed out after Xu You, only then will General Zhang He and General Xu Rong seize the opportunity to defeat the enemy!" ”

"Are you saying that Yuan Xi's orders in the Yuan family's army are inconsistent?" The Yuan family army is not monolithic at all, Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang both subconsciously regard each other as enemies. How can it be monolithic?

If Yuan Jiajun turned his fist and was truly united, then Cao Cao would really not be able to take this Youzhou, but now it is not necessarily.

"What we have to do is to let the Yuan family army fall apart again!" Guo Jia looked at the city wall over there with a sneer.

"Where is General Xu Huang's troops!" Guo Jia asked Cao Cao on the side.

"Xu Huang is in Zhuojun for a generation!" Cao Cao pointed to the location on the map and said to Guo Jia.

"Who is the guard of Zhuojun?"

"Cen Bi!" This person is a general under Yuan Tan, and his strength is also about the quasi-first-class, with 10,000 elites and 30,000 auxiliary soldiers, stationed in Zhuojun for a generation, Xu Huang's command is already the first-class main station of Cao Cao's army, and it is precisely because of this Cen Bi's strength is relatively strong. That's why Cao Cao sent Xu Huang out to contain this person.

"Cen Bi!" Guo Jia thought for a long time, "Yuan Tan's subordinates." Guo Jia said to Cao Cao, "My lord, you can give an order." Let General Xu Huang come back. Let General Xiahouba and General Xu Huang change their guards. ”

"Let Zhongquan fight Cen Bi?" Cao Cao's eyes widened and he looked at Guo Jia suspiciously, who is Xiahouba? That was Xiahou Yuan's second son, and his mother was the sister of Cao Cao's wife, Mu Ding, and could be said to be Cao Cao's son and nephew.

Although he has the ability, he is still young after all, and this time he can be said to have followed Cao Cao to see the world.

Therefore, Cao Cao gave him a small official position, and the captain of the wing, in fact, was the leader of a group of auxiliary soldiers in charge of logistics, and there were a lot of soldiers and horses under his command, there were 30,000 people, but this combat effectiveness was greatly reduced, if they encountered the local elite soldiers and horses, 5,000 elites would be able to defeat and annihilate them in the field. This made Xiahou Ba fight against Cen Bi, hehe, this is not death.

"Although General Xiahou Ba only has 30,000 auxiliary soldiers under his command, the lord, if 30,000 people protect the camp, it should be no problem to hold on for ten days and half a month." Guo Jia looked at Cao Cao with a smile, he knew that Cao Cao was worried about his little nephew, after all, this Xiahou bully Cao Cao had great expectations for him, if there was any loss, Cao Cao would not be able to explain to the Xiahou family.

"Defending the camp?" Cao Cao didn't understand even more, they were attacking Youzhou now, and Zhuojun was even more important, and only after taking him could Cao Cao break into the hinterland of Youzhou with confidence.

"Lord, if we let go of Yuan Tan's soldiers and horses, but attack Yuan Shang with all our might, what do you think Yuan Shang will think?" Guo Jia asked Cao Cao.

"Let Yuan Tan go all out to attack Yuan Shang?" The more Cao Cao thought about this, the brighter his eyes became, this world does not suffer from inequality, if Cao Cao let go of Yuan Tan and mainly attacked Yuan Shang, Yuan Shang would inevitably be resentful when he lost a large number of troops, and how big this resentment was depends on Cao Cao and them. At that time, how much friendship between the two brothers will be, it is really not necessarily.

Guo Jia's idea was to let Cao Cao put his second-line troops, those auxiliaries outside Yuan Tan's defense line, so that Yuan Tan could not talk about the truth, so that Yuan Tan would not dare to send troops to help, and Cao Cao would put all the elites into the onslaught on the city defended by Yuan Shang, so as to gap the Yuan brothers.

"Good!" Cao Cao immediately made a decision: "Tomorrow, tomorrow, let Zhong Quan and Xu Huang change their guards." ”

"No, we have to act now!" Guo Jia shook his head and said to Cao Cao.

"Let them go overnight?" Cao Cao asked suspiciously.

"Yes, my lord, time waits for no one." Guo Jia explained to Cao Cao, "If the time goes on, then Yuan Xi's position as commander will really be realized." Guo Jia was a little worried.

Indeed, in the middle of Youzhou. After Yuan Xi became this commander. The Yuan brothers have always been defeated. But now that it has won, it is still a series of victories, and even if it can't win, it is basically not a loss.

It is precisely because of this that Yuan Xi has accumulated a lot of prestige among the Yuan family's army, and all the generals of the Yuan family's army like to hear Yuan Xi's command, even the Yuan family's brothers' strategists and generals are also saying good things for Yuan Xi. Once the time has passed, it is impossible to say that a group of soldiers and soldiers of the Yuan family are really going to change their courts. Because a reliable lord can lead them to victory, who wants those two second ancestors to be together.

"The second brother is really Sun Wu alive, and he is like a god with soldiers!" Yuan Shang was not stingy with his praise at all, and his eyes were also smiling, because it was not a good feeling to watch Cao Cao's army eat deflated at Yuan Xi's hands.

"Yes, with the second brother here, why should we worry that the thief will not retreat." Yuan Tan is also very complacent, fighting with Cao Cao's army is only worthy of earnings, waiting for Cao Cao's army to retreat, they can counterattack. Living in this secluded state, he Yuan Tan has long been enough.

A group of civil and military forces on the side were also fighting against Yuan Xi

"Where, where!" Yuan Xi said modestly. Only the judge on the side, Guo Tu and the others didn't say much, they wanted to remind their lord that the reputation of this second son may be getting bigger and bigger, but they don't know what to say, you must know that it is now a matter of life and death, otherwise they will not be able to unite together, and the blood feud between the two sides is not small.

If the entire alliance was shattered because of their words, there would really be no place for them in this world.

There is another reason, that is, there is a victory to be won with Yuan Xi, if he is given Yuan Tan as commander or Yuan Shang as commander, I am afraid that he will have been driven out of the Yalu River by Cao Cao now. That's why they pretended not to know anything, as long as they didn't take advantage of Yuan Tan (Yuan Shang)'s side.

"Third brother, how many new armor and weapons do you have over there!" Yuan Xi asked Yuan Shang on the side, making Yuan Shang vigilant for a while, could it be that this second brother wants his own weapons and armor. It's a little funny, Yuan Xi's prestige in his army has grown day by day, and he doesn't want to think about how to eliminate the influence, but is wary of these little money.

"There are less than a thousand of them!" Yuan Shang picked up a number.

"Huh?" Yuan Xi's brows furrowed. This third brother didn't tell the truth. "Third brother, it's not the weapons and armor that the second brother wants from you, but the second brother has to know a big number and plan it as a whole."

"Yes, third brother, why are you so stingy! Since the second brother has asked, how can you deceive the second brother, this is a lie about the military situation on the battlefield, second brother, I have 2,000 sets of armor and 3,000 swords. Yuan Xi was also vigilant at first, but when he heard that Yuan Xi didn't let them hand over their weapons and armor, he let go, and even tricked his third brother.

"Am I stingy? Hehe, why is someone generous to say that these 3,000 armor and 5,000 swords are 2,000 armor and 3,000 swords. Yuan Shang was also poking Yuan Tan's lameness.

Yuan Xi listened to the two brothers arguing helplessly, but he also slowly learned some information during the two brothers' demolition of each other.

That is, Yuan Shang still has 2,500 armors and 7,000 swords in his hands, and Yuan Xi's hands are only 5,000 swords, but there are 500 more sets of armor.

The two of them together can really re-assemble a heavy armor step, and even these heavy armor steps on the war horse are the heavy armored cavalry, how much Yuan Xi wants to unify these evil weapons and armor, you must know that although the weapon is good, if it can't be done on a large scale, it is useless in the battle of the army, so many people, even if you stand and kill you, you can also exhaust yourself.

However, Yuan Xi also knew that he was just thinking about it, and letting one of his brothers take out these things one by one was no less than killing them.

"Big brother, third brother, do you have any money, if you have, try to buy more of these armor and weapons, we have to form a system, so that three or two thousand can only be a small victory, and if you want to really drive Cao Cao out of Hebei, you still need large-scale soldiers and horses. Yuan Xi couldn't get it himself, so he could only see if these two brothers could take out a little more money and buy a little more, and then form a large army.

"Money!" Yuan Shang and Yuan Tan were entangled, although they also wanted more armor and weapons, but the price was too expensive, and Gongsun Du refused to negotiate the price several times, and the price would definitely not be reduced. Gongsun Du is just a second-class dealer. He couldn't decide the price.

"You don't need to make up five thousand more!" Yuan Xi said to the two brothers.

"The second brother has a lot at stake. Able to take a break! Yuan Shang asked Yuan Xi over there. This business is worth hundreds of thousands of gold, so he still needs to think carefully about it with his subordinates.

"Second brother, I also want time!"

"Good! Big brother, third brother, I hope you can give me an answer tomorrow tomorrow! Yuan Xi also nodded and began to send off guests.

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Xu You was killed! Cao Cao's army vanguard suffered heavy losses? These are all good news, enough to make our Royal Highness the King of Shu in Yangzhou happy for a while, as long as he drags Cao Cao's pace in the north. Then the Central Plains is safe.

"Those weapons and armor seem to be shining in Hebei!" Liu Mang said with a smile.

"That is, can the weapons and armor from my Yangzhou Ministry of Industry be high-quality?" Xu Shu also nodded at Liu Mang over there.

"The lord and grandson sent a letter, asking if they could sell it to that Cao Cao!" Mi Zhu said to Liu Mang.

Mi Zhu is the Ministry of Commerce, that is, the Ministry of Households, Yangzhou's big money bag, and these businesses are also helped by his Mi Zhu's people.

"Cao Cao is also interested? What a price. Liu Mang asked Mi Zhu over there with a smile.

Of course, this Gongsun Du hopes that Liu Mang will sell weapons to Cao Cao, in that case, he will be able to earn more money.

"Gongsun Du sent a letter saying that Cao Cao was willing to buy a battle armor for one hundred and fifty gold and a war sword for eighty gold." Mi Zhu said to Liu Mang.

"Haha, that Gongsun Du. It's really good at business. Liu Mang laughed out loud. This one after the other earned fifty of fifty gold, plus the cost price we gave him. His grandson Du really made a fortune. ”

"Huh?" Mi Zhu was a little puzzled, or Yang Hong on the side explained to Mi Zhu, in Cao Cao's army, the price of Gongsun Du to buy weapons and armor was two hundred gold, and the weapon and sword were directly one hundred gold.

Not to mention the part that Liu Mang let Gongsun Du earn, there was an extra fifty gold on the plain white armor and an extra twenty gold on the war knife, and these price deviations naturally went into the hands of Gongsun Du.

"Sue sù that Gongsun Du, Cao Cao has a thousand gold for a pair of armor and five hundred gold for a pair of war knives, if he Cao Cao can afford it, then sell it, and he can't afford it. Then don't ask. Liu Mang suddenly cooled down, this Gongsun Du is simply eating in the bowl and looking at the pot, and he has made hundreds of thousands of gold in the transaction with the Yuan family brothers, and he has not let him eat enough, and he even has the idea of Cao Cao, if it were not for the Yuan family brothers to drag Cao Cao, Liu Mang would not have sold war knives and weapons with his Gongsun Du.

"Yes!" Mi Zhu nodded, Cao Cao must not sell it, a thousand gold and a pair of armor, even Cao Cao can't afford it.

"My lord, and the Yuan family brothers have also found our Ministry of Commerce." Mi Zhu continued.

"The Yuan brothers found the Ministry of Commerce?" Liu Mang asked suspiciously, "What's wrong, is the weapon bad, or?" ”

"Then the Yuan family brothers want to ask the lord if the price of this weapon and armor can be reduced a little." Mi Zhu asked Liu Mang, the cost of this sword armor is ten gold and one hardware, but Liu Mang sold it for 100 gold and 50 gold, which is already ten times the profit.

In Mi Zhu's view, this price reduction point doesn't matter, the so-called small profits but quick turnover, the same money.

"Impossible!" Liu Mang refused without even thinking about it.

"My lord? This ten-fold profit will come back as long as we sell two more handfuls? Mi Zhu seemed to want to persuade Liu Mang, but Liu Mang shook his head.

"Zifang, you don't understand, our war knife can only be sold in Yangzhou, just like when Yuan Shao Yuan didn't sell war horses, we in the Central Plains region want war horses must be bought from him Yuan Shao Yuan Benchu, the price of a war horse on the grassland can be exchanged for only a few salt and iron, and when it is sold in the Central Plains, it is twenty gold and thirty gold, and even a good war horse was sold for more than 100 gold, at that time he Yuan Shao Yuan originally reduced the price!" Liu Mang's eyes narrowed and said to Mi Zhu, in the final analysis, Liu Mang fell in love with the family background left by Yuan Shao, with the Yuan family running the war horse in Hebei for so many years, it is definitely a huge fortune, if the Mi family said that it was a rich businessman in the Central Plains, then the Zhen family is a rich businessman in Hebei or an official businessman, and it is not unheard that the Zhen family has spent a lot of money.

It's one thing to think about the capital that Yuan Shao left, and there is another point, that is, Liu Mang doesn't want these swords to flow to Hebei. Because Hebei is going to the north, it is the land of foreign people. It would not be good if these iron swords and fine armor were revealed in the hands of foreigners. What's more, Liu Mang doesn't have much hope at all about whether this Yuan family brother can resist Cao Cao, because the trajectory of history tells Liu Mang, the Yuan family brother, that he can't play Cao Cao, if Liu Mang lowers the price, then the Yuan family brothers buy these weapons and armor in a big way and finally lose to Cao Cao, then this fun is great, not to give Cao Cao weapons and armor for nothing. The Yuan brothers are just a transition for Liu Mang, just rely on them to block Cao Cao for a while.

"But my lord. The Yuan brothers really don't seem to have any money! Mi Zhu still wanted to say something, the officials of the Ministry of Commerce in Liaodong reported that the Yuan brothers seemed to be unable to bear such consumption no matter how rich they were, and the original purchase of grain and grass was hundreds of thousands, but now it has become 100,000 and 80,000.

"No money!" Liu Mang frowned, if this Yuan family brother really can't afford it, it will really be a difficult matter, after all, this Yuan family brother only has one state, and his background is limited.

Liu Mang was thinking that this Yuan family brother had what Liu Mang needed in his hands, and it was impossible for Liu Mang to selflessly dedicate it to that Yuan family brother. After all, there is a trade.

Money and food. The Yuan family has no brothers, war horses? Liu Mang has a grandson to sell. The price is still cheap, and if you buy too much, Gongsun Du will not deceive himself with shoddy, weapons and armor? He still has to buy these things from Yangzhou.

Liu Mang really couldn't think of anything that this Yuan family brother could come up with and exchange for himself. It seems that his Yuan family brothers have no value except for people, and it is useless for him Liu Mang to ask for people, is it human trafficking.

Wrong! Person? Liu Mang suddenly thought of something, whether in the twenty-first century, in ancient times, or even in the future to come, what is the most valuable thing? It's not ore, it's not energy, it's talent. That's right, talent.

What kind of talent does the Yuan family brothers have?

"Who is the strategist in the hands of the Yuan family brothers? And who are the generals? Liu Mang asked Yang Hong over there, Yang Hong was in charge of Hebei intelligence.

"The eldest son of the Yuan family, Yuan Tan's subordinate strategist Guo Tu." Yang Hong reported to Liu Mang.

"Guo Tu?" Liu Mang thought for a while and shook his head, although this person is an upright person, although he is a talent, it is not what Liu Mang wants now, because this person is also very good at one thing, that is, infighting.

"The generals under the command of the eldest prince of the Yuan family, Cen Bi, He Yan, Wang Hu" Yang Hong said several names in a row, but Liu Mang didn't know any of them, just one Cen Bi also seemed to be a soy sauce-level character, and Liu Mang didn't need to be killed in seconds.

"Xin review, review." This is Yuan Shang's strategist, redundant this kind of master of playing infighting, Liu Mang doesn't want any of them, although he wants to pull one side to fight one side for the emperor, so as to maintain the balance of power, but Liu Mang doesn't need it, because after becoming the emperor, the world can only play like this, you haven't really achieved fame now, just think that infighting is not looking for death.

These are not what Liu Mang wants, this Yuan family brother seems to be really worthless.

Just when Liu Mang frowned, a small official over there suddenly spoke.

"Lord, Mr. Tian Feng, Mr. Tian Yuanhao, it seems that it is in the hands of the Yuan family brothers." The petty official spoke.

Liu Mang looked over, it turned out that this was still an acquaintance, that is, our Pang Shi's son Pang Shanmin, Pang Gong knew that his baby son was not good at cheating, so he thought about sending Pang Shanming to Liu Mang's side to see if Liu Mang could help, Liu Mang also found a position for this mountain brother not to cheat, that is, the professor of Yangzhou Academy, let Pang Shanmin teach students like his father, so that he Pang Shanmin does not need to entangle things like cheating.

If you do it early, sooner or later it will be full of peach and plums, and a big Confucian can't run away.

The reason why Pang Shanmin came to Shouchun's meeting hall this time was because Pang Shanmin wanted to borrow books from Liu Mang.

The ancients have been learning literature, but few have learned science and mathematics, so Pang Shanmin, a person who was familiar with Lumen Academy by his father's side, didn't know much about the ninety-nine multiplication table, and Liu Mang's Yangzhou Academy wanted to teach this, and he Pang Shanmin could only start learning from scratch.

"Tian Feng? Isn't he dead? Liu Mang subconsciously said this.

"Mr. Yuan Hao is dead?" Pang Shanmin was also stunned for a moment, and then he was about to cry, Tian Feng is also a great Confucian, for people like Pang Shanmin, it is an idol, and when the idol hangs, he naturally has to cry.

"Lord, where did you learn that this Tian Toyoda Yuanhao is dead?" Yang Hong on the side asked suspiciously.

"Isn't it?" Liu Mang touched his head: "Didn't this Tian Feng be killed by Yuan Shao after Yuan Shao's soldiers defeated Guandu?" Liu Mang still remembers that in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, Yuan Shao's subordinates were ministers, and the officials went to Jizhou to drive. He was an upright person, and he had repeatedly made suggestions to Yuan Shao but was not accepted, and Cao Cao's subordinate adviser Xun Yu once commented that he was "just and guilty". Later, he was ordered to be imprisoned by Yuan Shao for dissuading Yuan Shao from conquering Cao Cao. After the Battle of Guandu, Tian Feng was killed by Yuan Shao.

"Lord, that Yuan Shao Yuan Benchu, after the battle of Guandu, he was in a coma in a fit of rage, where did he have the kung fu to kill that Tian Toyoda Yuanhao!" Yang Hong shook his head and said to Liu Mang, when Yang Hong was under Yuan Shu's hands, Yuan Shu was defeated, and he always wanted to go to Hebei to find his brother Yuan Shao to take refuge, so Yang Hong sent spies to pave the way for Yuan Shu as soon as possible, and this Tian Feng really didn't die.

"Tian Feng is not dead!?" Liu Mang's eyes suddenly lit up, and if Tian Feng hadn't died, then this Yuan family brother really had the conditions for a deal.

"Tian Feng is not dead, what about Frustration?" Liu Mang asked again.

I was thinking of getting the exact news from Yang Hong's mouth, but Yang Hong shook his head: "My lord, this Hong doesn't know!" "Some people say that Fu Zhu has died in Guandu, and some people say that Fu Zhu was killed by Yuan Shang, after all, Fu Zhu is Yuan Shao's diehard, and some people even say that Fu Zhu was killed by Yuan Shao.

"Frustrated Tian Feng! Well, as long as you get this one, it means that this transaction is not a loss! Liu Mang couldn't wait and said to his subordinate Mi Zhu, "Zifang, you have worked hard once, and then send your officials from the Ministry of Commerce to contact me immediately, and contact the Yuan family brothers, just say that Tian Feng and other generals Yuan Shao's old generals I want, the price is geometric, you go to negotiate, but this Tian Feng must get it." ”

Liu Mang suddenly discovered a treasure trove, it was simply exciting, Yuan Shao was indeed defeated, but many endings were different from before, and those generals and scribes who were supposed to surrender to Cao Cao were also left behind by mistake.

This Tian Feng was supposed to die early, but suddenly he didn't die.

Liu Mang wondered if he could go to the Yuan brothers again to see if he could get more things.

"Yes!" Mi Zhu nodded, and soon a messenger rode a warship from the waterway towards Hebei.

went ashore from the territory of Gongsun Du of Liaodong, and then escorted Mi Zhu's men to Youzhou occupied by the Yuan brothers with soldiers and horses sent by Gongsun Du of Liaodong. (To be continued......)