Chapter Seventy-Eight: On the Eastbound Road
"Since Duke Yuan plans to let the lord stabilize Yangzhou, then a large amount of grain reserves is necessary, after all, our consumption along the way is not a small amount." As soon as Yuan Yao finished speaking, He Shen on the side suddenly spoke.
"What do you think?" Looking at He Shen's glowing eyes, Yuan Yao couldn't help but be interested.
"Lord, money is important in this era, but it is not a necessity, Dong Zhuo spent a lot of effort to hoard all the money, in my opinion, it is extremely stupid."
"In the end, isn't Dong Zhuo's money cheaper, my lord!"
"So, what the subordinates mean is that the lord might as well take out all the money now and let me take someone to spend it before leaving Nanyang."
"Compared with money, population and food will be the foundation of all princes in the future."
He Shen said as he looked at Yuan Yao's left hand with a golden light in his eyes, obviously very concerned about the use of money, especially the huge amount of wealth.
He Shen himself doesn't know, he always feels that there is a force in the dark that makes him irresistible to money, every time he thinks of money, it is like beating chicken blood, and the whole person will have a kind of excitement that goes deep into the bone marrow.
"How do you need me to cooperate with you?" Yuan Yao looked at He Shen's energetic appearance and looked at him with a smile.
"Lord, I need Xu Rong and two thousand Xiliang cavalry with me."
"Nanyang is the land of four wars, but because of this, there are many ways for me to choose, the lord can lead the army forward first, and the rest will be handed over to the subordinates."
When it came to the use of money, He Shen seemed to tremble all over, pursed his lips, rubbed his hands nervously, and even breathed a lot faster.
"Okay, you can do it!" Yuan Yao saw that He Shen had signs of spontaneous combustion, and nodded strangely.
The three of them discussed the details in detail, Liu Ji left in a hurry, and Yuan Yao asked Yuan Shu for a huge mansion, took out a large amount of money from the Duanjun warehouse, and put it in the mansion.
And then.
Yuan Yao sent someone to call Xu Rong again and asked him to fully cooperate with He Shen, not only leaving 3,000 cavalry, but also letting Tai Shici follow.
In just half a day, He Shen had hundreds of truckloads of grain and grass transported, which made Yuan Yao feel that this guy's efficient ability to do things.
Finding a cover casually, Yuan Yao secretly collected the grain and grass into the warehouse of the faint monarch, and after bidding farewell to his father Yuan Shu, he took the rest of the people to the east.
Only this time, Yuan Yao not only brought 4,000 Xiliang iron horses, but also accompanied nearly 400,000 displaced people.
Due to the frequent wars and turmoil everywhere, there were many people who fled to Nanyang, and Yuan Shu was free to these exiles, many of them were struggling on the death line, and even survival could not be guaranteed.
As soon as Yuan Yao recruited like this, the number of followers was simply innumerable, and he accidentally added more than 100,000 exiles to Nanyang.
With such a huge team, even Yuan Yao was taken aback, and hurriedly asked people to rush to Yangzhou quickly, so that they would immediately send someone to escort the grain to come over to respond.
At the same time, Huang Zhong was also sent out by Yuan Yao, who led a thousand cavalry to prepare enough food for the officials along the route according to the march route set by Yuan Yao.
Such a large-scale migration is beyond the reach of other princes, after all, they do not have such huge financial resources as Yuan Yao, and there is the full cooperation of the Runan Yuan clan along the way, which can be described as huge.
At the same time, Cao Cao in the north of Yuzhou, with the support of Yanzhou officials and wealthy families, launched a series of battles with the Yellow Turban Army, not only defeated the Yellow Turban Army in a row, but also incorporated more than 300,000 people of the Yellow Turban Army, and organized the surrendered Yellow Turban Army into Qingzhou soldiers, and the power instantly soared.
Cao Cao took the post of Yanzhou Assassin under the recommendation of everyone, and rose strongly from an ordinary small prince on the stage of hegemony in troubled times.
Cao Cao's sudden rise not only gave Yuan Shu, who was planning the Northern Expedition, a headache, but even Yuan Shao, who was his ally, a little suspicious.
However, Yuan Shao's life at this time was not easy, he was not a good name in Jizhou, and he did not have the ability to fully control Jizhou, not to mention that the Montenegrin army occupied a large area of territory in the west, and Gongsun Zan in the east also took advantage of the situation to occupy a lot of territory, and it was not as strong as imagined.
At the time of Cao Cao's rise, the great war in Yanzhou caused a large number of displaced people to flee in all directions, especially Yuan Yao, who traveled eastward, felt the deepest.
After entering Runan County, more than 400,000 people, plus the local refugees who came to take refuge, unconsciously had a tendency to move closer to 500,000, coupled with a large number of refugees from Yanzhou, the number of displaced people had far exceeded 500,000 by the time they arrived in Ruyang.
With such a large number of teams, it is not easy to make everyone keep to themselves, but fortunately, along the way, Liu Ji made frequent moves, not only letting Zhang Liao behead some unruly people in public, but also signing contracts with most of the homeless people according to the old method.
Everyone walked along Weishui, not only was the drinking water guaranteed, but everyone was cleaned at Yuan Yao's request.
Such a large number of displaced people, if they do not have a clean and tidy body, it is easy to cause an epidemic of plague diseases, although people in this era do not understand, but Yuan Yao, who has the memory of later generations, is convinced of this.
In Ruyang City, Yuan Yao met Hua Tuo, a miracle doctor who was sent to see a doctor, and he was so happy that he directly invited Hua Tuo over and asked him to accompany him.
Yuan Yao's action of relocating refugees was a good deed, and such a large team needed a doctor to treat him at any time, Hua Tuo, as a doctor, naturally would not refuse, and was easily requisitioned by Yuan Yao.
Although Hua Tuo in this period had superb medical skills, his reputation was not as great as he imagined, and he was far inferior to Zhang Zhongjing, the Taishou of Changsha.
At least in terms of reputation, Zhang Zhongjing's fame is much higher than Hua Tuo's.
"Childe, what are the germs you are talking about?" Walking along Weishui, Hua Tuo was obviously very interested in some of the medical knowledge that Yuan Yao casually said.
"The germs are very small, you need to see them clearly under the microscope, and when you arrive in Jiujiang, I will get you a special laboratory, and give you a precision microscope, and you can figure it out by yourself when the time comes." Yuan Yao walked beside Hua Tuo and said as he walked.
"Then thank you, Childe." Hua Tuo nodded honestly and continued to bow his head and move forward.
For Hua Tuo, during this period, he was very interested in human skeletons, and often stole corpses in various places to conduct research and supplement his medical skills.
Yuan Yao planned to build a laboratory, plus some modern equipment, so that Hua Tuo could study in depth and let him carry forward his medical skills.
The two were talking, and suddenly Xu Chu on the side spoke: "Lord, a large number of ships have been found in front, and there is a Jiang character hanging on the leading warship!" ”