At any time, talent is always precious, Li You has seen more civil and official groups that are constantly fighting and dragging his feet since he crossed over, and he is full of good feelings for an official like Zhang Guo who is sincerely serving the country, if he can collect him and his 30,000 elite soldiers for his own use, it will be very beneficial for him to dominate the world in the future, but he also knows that it is too early to say these words to Zhang Guo now, so he can only indirectly brush up a wave of goodwill first, and then make plans when the time is ripe. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Returning to his camp, he ordered someone to call the person in charge of the Chamber of Commerce in the local area and told him carefully, although he still didn't understand Li You's requirements, but out of Fan Li's many teachings in the past, he still agreed without hesitation, and then went out and began to prepare for this matter.

"Now that we don't have enough food, will you lose more than you gain by doing this?" Li Lingyue asked with a little doubt, she might be able to understand Li You's approach to meeting King Fu, but she couldn't see through the value of Zhang Guo, which had nothing to do with intelligence, it was just that she hadn't experienced much before, and she didn't know enough about the army.

"In my opinion, Zhang Guo alone is worth the elite of five commanders, and he can win the favor of five commanders by spending such a little food, and this wave of business will not be lost in any way." Li You said firmly, and there was no contradiction between Zhang Guo and his previous plan to contact King Fu; According to Li You's view of Zhang Guo, even if the world is in turmoil, he will not choose another Ming lord to defect, and he will still remain loyal to the court of the Great Wei, and King Fu can just be an excuse to subdue Zhang Guo.

Early the next morning, Zhang Guo's Hedong thief army and Li You's Jiazhou army woke up from their sleep almost at the same time, began to pack their tents and prepare to set off again, and then a group of merchants appeared at the gate of Zhang Guo's camp.

"My lord, this may be the businessmen that Jiazhou Bo said yesterday." Luo Shiji's mood was slightly complicated, he had vaguely guessed that this was Li You's support to Zhang Guo, but he borrowed the guise of a businessman to avoid the criticism of the imperial court, there is such a city at such an age, I want to come to this person's plan is not small, if it is close to the other party by the adult, it seems quite inappropriate, but now the camp is really about to run out of food, even if he feels that the capital, with the relationship between the adult and the Taiwei Mansion and the military department, it is difficult to get enough food from the capital, which makes his words of persuasion unable to speak.

On the other hand, Qin Shixin didn't have so many ideas, and when he heard that he might be able to get food, he immediately became happy, "Haha, I think General Pan behind Uncle Jiazhou is a good man, and the person who can recover such a good man must not be stingy, yesterday you blamed me for talking too much, and today people sent food." Qin Shixin regarded these businessmen as the credit for his request for help yesterday.

"Let them come in, and ask the price of the grain, but now we don't have much silver in our camp, and I don't know how much we can buy." Zhang Guo hesitated for a while, but he still couldn't watch the soldiers go hungry, due to the natural and man-made disasters in the past two years, the surrounding food has risen from one tael of silver and two stones to five taels of silver and one stone, and the capture of their exterminators and the meager military salary issued by the military department add up to less than 10,000 taels, and it is really impossible to feed the 30,000 army.

After a while, a businessman with a smile was ushered in, he first saluted Zhang Guo, and then got up and said, "The villain was originally a person from Hedong, thanks to the adult, the villain's family was preserved, and now I heard that the adult led the troops into the king of Jingqin, and the small one could not be repaid, only to send a little food and hope to alleviate the adult's temporary urgency." ”

Zhang Guo wanted to ask about the relationship between him and Li You, but he was blocked by Li You this time, so he could only shake his head and say, "It's not easy for you to wait for business, and this official will naturally not take your grain for nothing, but now the camp is not sufficient, and I hope that Mr. can be a little cheaper." Even at this point, he still refused to take people's things for nothing.

Zhang Guo's answer surprised the businessman, he has been in business for many years, and he is used to seeing officials who knock on the bone and suck the marrow, but he has never seen Zhang Guo such an official who does not even accept the things sent to the door, remembering Li You's advice yesterday, he bowed deeply again and said, "The adult's high style and bright festival is really admirable to the villain, and the villain has the courage to offer to the adult; The villain brought 10,000 stones of grain this time, and was willing to sell it to the adults for five coins and one stone. ”

"One tael of silver and two stones?" Zhang Guo and Luo Shiji exchanged glances, this price was far beyond their expectations, they originally thought that they would have Li You's face, these businessmen might give a low price to sell two taels of silver and one stone, they planned to grit their teeth and buy thousands of stones, but they didn't expect the price given by the other party to be the same as a good year.

"This gentleman, I'm afraid you're going to lose money at this price, right?" Luo Shiji couldn't help but ask.

"Luo Jiyi, you are an expert in staff praise and painting, planning money and grain, but if you talk about businessmen, we should be more shrewd, these grains were prepared by the villain last year, and when they were collected, they were only three dollars of silver and one stone, and now they are still profitable when they are sold for five dollars of silver. Besides, adults are so kind to me, and I should give them some discounts. "The businessman's face is really long, if he does this well, he can go to Jiazhou to get the exquisite tools made by the workshop from Fan Li, and the profit in this is much higher than that of grain, so his business is really not a loss.

The soldiers of the Hedong Thief Army have been half-hungry for several days, Zhang Guo has been a little humble and has accepted the other party's kindness, and took out thousands of taels of silver to buy these grains, the merchant left happily, and Luo Shiji followed him to deliver the grain, and when he came back, his face was quite strange, "My lord, the amount of grain this time is not right." ”

"What? Short of two pounds? Qin Shixin suddenly stood up, and he was going to find trouble with them.

"No, it's an extra 500 stones." Luo Shiji hurriedly pulled him down.

"What's going on?" Zhang Guo asked.

"The merchant said that he had always been honest in his business, and that he had prepared some extra losses when he was carrying the grain, and now that it had been safely transported to the camp, they belonged to us. These belong to this business, so let me not shirk. Luo Shiji explained.

"It's.... Zhang Guo's face also became extremely exciting, the officials of the imperial court were trying their best to increase the proportion of drifting, but these merchants took the initiative to increase the loss in order to avoid the loss of customers, compared to the two, the discipline of the court officials was simply completely lost, which made him really not know what to say. (To be continued.) )