General's Mansion, in Wang Xu's study!

The three brothers and sisters are frowning, thinking about how to solve Jingzhou's financial crisis. As the saying goes, three stinkers and one Zhuge Liang, but now even Guo Jia, who is as famous as Zhuge Liang, can't, so naturally it is not ordinary. As for Zhuge Liang, he is still a little brat!

The time of silence always passed quickly, Zhou Zhi couldn't think about it, and said sharply: "Boss, then let go of your guts, let's rob Cao Cao!" Anyway, the Central Plains has money, let's send a small number of elite troops, and grab as much as you want! ”

"Good idea! I think it works! Zhang Jing decisively agreed, and he had a paranoid enthusiasm for fighting Cao Cao.

"How? Where? "Wang Xu is not as irrational as the two of them, if he is not at home, he doesn't know how difficult it is to be in charge, does Cao Cao say that he can fight? It is useless to have fewer troops, and if there are more troops, there is a deep quagmire of war over there, and Jingzhou is powerless.

Zhou Zhi replied angrily: "If we go to Yanzhou or Yuzhou, we will bring our respective personal guard troops, and we will rob money in the past, and we will grab as much as we can!" ”

"Do you mean robbing Cao Cao or robbing the people?" Wang Xu glanced at him angrily, and then his tone turned anxious, and he reprimanded: "I said that you are not the material to be a military advisor, and you really don't have any touches at all." If you take the personal guard to rob it, of course you are invincible with the elite, but we represent Jingzhou, you rob those small places, it is not robbing Cao Cao, you are robbing the people, then it is better to be a bandit, do you want everyone in the world to reprimand you and be Dong Zhuo? ”

"As for Cao Cao's treasury?" The corners of Wang Xu's mouth grinned, and he said half-mockingly: "You take your own greedy wolf guard, and I will give you all my personal guards and iron horses." You go and grab it and show me. To be able to get it back. The lord of Jingzhou, you will do it! ”

Zhou Zhi was so scolded by Wang Xu that he almost couldn't raise his head, and only after a while did he sigh: "This ...... Well, this one! The temptation is great, but I don't want to die! ”

"It's good to know." Wang Xu took a deep breath, calmed down his anger, and said slowly: "But no matter what, now that the urgent need is finally solved, let's borrow money from those families first and get through the current hurdle." In the future, if you want to find a way to make money, let's go to dinner first! The world is big, the food is big, and the stomach is full to have the spirit, hey! ”

Just as Wang Xu got up and was about to come out, Zhang Jing suddenly spoke up. "Boss! Wait a minute! ”

"Huh?" Wang Xu looked back in confusion.

"I have a way, I know where to rob!" Zhang Jing smiled in surprise,

"Let's take a look!" Wang Xu didn't have much hope for these two enthusiasts, and said flatly.

Zhang Jing didn't care so much, but was pleasantly surprised: "Boss." Bandits, fight bandits! ”

"Okay. I'll admit you're a good idea! Wang Xu's face sank, and then he jumped like thunder, and suddenly gave Zhang Jing a burst. But fuck my Jingzhou has no bandits, they have all been killed, singing and dancing, where will I get bandits for you? ”

Zhang Jing touched his head, but he didn't mind at all, and he was still happy and couldn't help himself: "Lord, who said that it must be my bandits in Jingzhou, we will fight the boundary of Liu Xuan in Yangzhou, and fight in Yuzhou!" Runan, isn't Runan a lot of yellow turban remnants? They gathered a crowd to cause trouble, and we went to encircle and suppress it, not only did they become famous, but they also did not need much effort, and they could also get the support and good reputation of the people. ”

"Huh?" Wang Xu was also stunned, he really hadn't thought about it, he had always been confined to his own territory, and he had never thought of going to other people's borders to fight bandits.

Thinking about the feasibility, Wang Xu also showed surprise on his face, and suddenly gave Zhang Jing a bear hug, and laughed: "Hahaha...... Zhang Jing, your elm head is finally enlightened, I didn't see it, I always thought you were quite heroic, and your head was like a piece of wood and didn't know how to change, I was worried about you for many years, but I didn't expect it to be enlightened, it's really good! That's nice! ”

Wang Xu was so happy, and he said what he didn't have in his heart.

Zhang Jing's smiling face instantly became full of black lines, the green tendons were exposed, and Zhou Zhi laughed exaggeratedly on the side: "Hahahaha!" Zhang Jing, elm head, good! Fitting! It's really wood! How long did the boss have to hide this, but he actually said it and let me die. ”

"Boss!" Zhang Jing gritted his teeth and shouted.

When Wang Xu heard Zhou Zhi's laughter, he also reacted, hurriedly dodged and retreated a few meters, and sneered: "Slip of the tongue, slip of the tongue!" Unintentional mistakes, unintentional losses, don't care, don't care! They are all good brothers, their feelings are deep, jokes, pure jokes! ”

While speaking, he was already running out of the study in a hurry, and Zhang Jing's face was wonderful, and he chased him out with a fist. "Boss, if you don't give me an explanation today, I'm not done with you!"

Zhou Zhi was watching the play, but he was comfortable at the moment, Shi Shiran walked to the door of the study, leaned on the door frame with his hands on his chest, and watched Zhang Jing and Wang Xu chase and fight, crazy! From time to time, he also gave instructions as if he were doing something.

"Well, that's good, Zhang Jing, your hand is going down a little, and you can steal peaches with a trick monkey!"

"Huh! What's the matter, use the legs, stupid! ”

After a while, Wang Xu, who was chased and beaten by Zhang Jing, couldn't listen anymore and yelled angrily. "Zhou Zhi, you bastard, brother won't waste you later!"

"Cut, who is afraid that you will be cruel, let's protect yourself first!" Zhou Zhi pursed his lips disdainfully, and continued to talk about the wind and cold.

"I'll protect you as an immortal." Wang Xu couldn't hold back any longer, and in the dodge, he turned and swooped straight at Zhou Zhi, flying up with a kick.

"Mom! You immortals are fighting, what are you chasing me for, mortal? Boss, why are you here with all the scuds, those legs are full of bitter hair, except for the sisters-in-law, who likes it, what are you showing here? "Zhou Zhike doesn't know what it means to keep virtue on his lips, and he is still extremely harmful, but he is not slow on his feet, and he runs away when he dodges.

Xu Shu and the others heard the noise in the distance, and they had already gone to the yard to watch, and when they saw them making noise from a distance, they were laughing one by one. Hearing that Zhou Zhi had damaged all the women in the end, Xu Shu was furious, so she threw out a spatula and flew straight to Zhou Zhi. "You guy, accumulate some virtue!"

Zhou Zhi dodged away, watching the spatula slam on the ground with a loud bang, and was suddenly shocked: "My God, sister-in-law, you shot too hard, this is going to be smashed." It doesn't hurt your muscles and bones. ”

Xu Shu suddenly laughed and scolded: "If only I could hit you." I really want to use the internal force to give you a hard time! ”

"Don't! I admit my mistake. Can't you admit your mistakes? Zhou Zhi suddenly cried.

Xu Shu is also just joking, if you really want to use your internal strength, then you have to do it, watching the three men who are not small chasing and fighting in the yard, there is also an unnatural smile on their faces.

How long has it been, I haven't released myself so easily and freely, and a group of young people have almost become as serious and rigid as old men.

This moment. The women didn't bother, just laughing in the distance, letting the three of them sway their young hearts to the fullest, releasing the brotherly feelings that had to be bound up by dreams and battles.

It wasn't until the three of them were crazy and tired and lay side by side on the ground in the courtyard gasping for breath that Xu Shu scolded loudly: "Are you three crazy enough, come to eat if you are crazy enough, really, where is a bit of a general!" ”

"Good. Dine! Wang Xu was in a good mood and jumped up. Pulled up Zhang Jing and Zhou Zhi, and said with a smile: "Let's go, our three brothers have a good drink tonight!" ”

"Hey! Who's afraid of whom, I'm drunk anyway, you have to send someone to send me back! Zhou Zhi smiled.

"You can't drink me all the time!" Zhang Jing immediately boasted of Haikou.

Wang Xu and Zhou Zhi instantly gave him a roll of the eyes, and Zhou Zhi sneered: "Come on, you!" When were you not the first to fall? ”

"Is that how much better I drank than you?"

Zhou Zhi pouted: "I'm afraid what you're talking about is not a bar!" You've drunk more soup than we have every time! ”

"Hahaha...... "Wang Xu is happy." That's a good thing to say, Zhou Zhi, I found that your kid's eloquence is getting better and better. ”

"That's ...... I ......"

The three brothers have not been together so easily for a long time, and the three of them have come and gone for this meal, and they have a lot of fun. Zhang Jing, who claimed to be the largest drinker, poured a pot of chicken soup after drinking a few big bowls, but still failed to relieve the hangover, and was dashing and soft to the ground, verifying his "boast" that he was really good at drinking and drinking soup.

The next day, Wang Xu restored his normalcy and convened Jingzhou's ministers to jointly draft a list of loans, which was not made public to the public, but was sorted out by Hu Cao Peng and sent directly to all the wealthy families in Jingzhou.

Because of the material collateral, the deposit of interest is profitable, and the vanity of making the general's mansion indebted, the big families and wealthy families in Xiangyang are the first to respond. A cartload of five baht coins, as well as a lot of gold and silver nuggets, were sent to the treasury.

Bookkeeper Cao engaged in Chen Deng and Cangcao Peng Liu Xian, leading the officials to be very busy, tapping the quantity, weighing the weight, entering and leaving the warehouse, which is comparable to the material scheduling scene before the big war. Jingzhou's financial crisis was thus resolved, and the ministries were once again operating in an orderly manner!

The construction of the newly established Shucao finally began, and all the craftsmen who served the military and government of Jingzhou full-time were all classified as subordinates of the General's Mansion and were put on record. The craftsmen who died in the line of duty before were all given a certain amount of bereavement to their families, and Hu Cao arranged a suitable errand for them, such as working at the post station and Caoyun wharf, or participating in the construction, clearing the wasteland, etc.!

At the same time, the establishment of a technology research and development room, from each type of craftsman to select the best people, focus on the research and development of new equipment and new technology, research and development needs, in the future by the Shu Cao Peng report, after the audit by the government treasury unified allocation of money and materials.

Shu Cao officially became a major subordinate of the General's Mansion, but he also did not participate in military and political affairs.

After doing this qiē, Wang Xu finally breathed a sigh of relief, relieved of the guilt in his heart, and could face those craftsmen with a clear conscience. It's just that who did this trick Cao Peng did, but it gave him a lot of headaches, and the officials of the general's mansion were reluctant to go, saying that they didn't know anything about those things, and they didn't know what to do.

In the end, Wang Xu could only choose one person from the craftsmen, and found the former soldier Cao Peng Chen Deng to ask, after all, these craftsmen were responsible for the coordination of Bing Cao, and Chen Deng should be more familiar.

"My lord is looking for me? What is the command? Chen Deng walked up to Wang Xu excitedly.

Wang Xu didn't rush to say something, and asked with concern first: "Yuanlong, I've been tired these days!" ”

"This is a matter of duty, how can you say that you are tired!" Chen Deng shook his head suddenly.

"Huh!" Smiling slightly, Wang Xu looked at his cousin for a long time, but suddenly asked, "Yuanlong, are the eldest aunt and uncle still unwilling to come to Jingzhou?" ”

"Hey!" Seeing that Wang Xu was chatting about family life, Chen Deng was also a little less restrained, sighed slightly, and said with a wry smile: "Father still hasn't made up his mind, I have already written many letters to persuade me. ”

Wang Xu smiled and nodded: "Then you have to persuade them more, and strive to let them move south, Xuzhou is now a place of a hundred battles, if Cao Cao frees up his hands to pacify Xuzhou, my uncle's family will definitely not have a good time in Xuzhou, and I am also worried about the safety of my eldest aunt." ”

"Not that fast, right? Liu Xuande is also a hero in the world, and it will not be so easy to defeat. Chen Deng hesitated.

"That might be." Wang Xu shook his head and looked at him meaningfully: "Not to mention that Liu Bei will definitely not be able to stop Cao Cao, even if Lu Bu is not a good person, although Liu Bei wants to use his strength to resist Cao Cao, but Lu Bu may not want to seek to seize Xuzhou, if it is civil strife in Xuzhou, it will be even more dangerous." ”

"This ......" Chen Deng was convinced of Wang Xu's words, and the more he listened, the more worried he became, and said with a bitter face: "It seems that I have to have a strong attitude and ask my father to move the family to Jingzhou, but since Tao Qian's death, my father's attitude is not so resolute." ”

"Hmmm! That's for the best. ”

reminded Chen Deng, Wang Xu didn't talk nonsense anymore, and returned to the topic: "Yuan Long, before you served as a soldier Cao, you had a lot of contact with craftsmen, do you know who has talent and virtue and can be qualified for the position of Shu Cao Peng?" Now the officials of the General's Mansion almost don't understand those strange and obscene techniques, and they are reluctant to take over, which is really difficult to do! ”

"Huh?" Chen Deng was stunned when he heard this, and said strangely: "Lord, don't you plan to let Zheng Hun be a trick Cao Peng?" He's the perfect fit! ”

"Zheng Hun?" Wang Xu frowned slightly, a little hesitant. "Although he is loved by the craftsmen and his skills are good, I am not sure whether he can manage the weight of a Cao well, after all, if this Cao Peng does not have a certain amount of experience, it may be difficult to be competent."

"Hahaha......" Hearing this, Chen Deng couldn't stop laughing, seeing that Wang Xu was puzzled, then he said: "The lord doesn't know, this Zheng Hun is the great-grandson of the previous generation of Confucian Zheng Zhong, and his brother Zheng Tai should have heard of it!" ”

"Zheng Tai?" Wang Xu recalled slightly, and he was already curious: "But the former servant Yushi, the speaker Zheng Tai? He had conspired with Xun You and others to kill Dong Zhuo, and then he fled to Nanyang to join Yuan Shu, and Yuan Shu promoted him as the assassin of Yangzhou, but Zheng Tai died of illness before he arrived in Yangzhou? ”

"Exactly!" Chen Deng nodded and explained: "This Zheng Hun is Zheng Tai's brother, after Zheng Tai's death, Zheng Hun took Zheng Tai's son Zheng Hao and defected to Yuan Shu together, but Zheng Hun saw that Yuan Shu was arrogant and lascivious, moody, and politically unethical, and expected that he would die sooner or later, and he was afraid that one day he would be angry and killed, so he left." He originally wanted to defect to his friend Hua Xin, but Hua Xin obeyed Liu Xian's orders, and fought with Sun Jian in Yangzhou, and the wars were frequent, so he hid in Jingzhou. ”

This person is not only quite knowledgeable, but also extremely good at iron smelting, alchemy, and making utensils, and later went to Xiangyang Workshop to find an errand and live here. I had heard of his name before, and I had some contact with him, so I knew the reason, and I wanted to recommend it to the lord, but I found that he was more interested in iron smelting, alchemy, and zuò making tools, so I dispelled the idea. Now set up Shucao, he himself is the most suitable! ”

"This is really ......" Wang Xu was stunned for a long time, he never thought that Zheng Hun, who took the lead in kneeling and begging, turned out to be the famous Three Kingdoms craftsman in folklore, and the famous minister of Cao Wei in history - Zheng Hun! (To be continued......)