Yuan Shuming knew that Xi Zhi was a radical general, but he was still a little excited to hear him say this, Yuan Shao plotted Jizhou, everyone in the world knew that if Yuan Shao got the jade seal of the country and captured Jizhou, the difficulty would be reduced by at least half, and his status as the concubine of the Yuan family in Runan would be seriously threatened, which was not what Yuan Shu was willing to see.

So he snorted coldly and said: "Yuan Shao is my Yuan family slave, the stronghold is far away in the Bohai Sea, and Han Wenjie also has 20,000 troops in Hanoi, and it is close to Wei County, and it is unpredictable whether these two people will win or lose Jizhou." Why did Wei Zhongdao give up the near and seek the farthest away, and seek fish from the wood?

It's just that Wei Zhongdao asked for too much, and the general wouldn't be able to make up so much for a while, and there were still 40,000 soldiers waiting to be fed in Nanyang who needed to consume a lot of grain and grass. A little less, a little less, Ben will find a way to get it together as soon as possible. ”

Xi Zhicai glanced at Yuan Shu and looked embarrassed: "I can't be loyal to this matter, but I don't know how much General Ming can lend?" How long will it take? It's good to send someone back to ask my general. Otherwise, if my general can't wait to send someone to contact Che Qi, even if Che Qi can't get so much for a while, won't there be any people in Yanzhou? In case my family will ???????????????? The rank agreed to ride the car and it was embarrassing. ”

Hearing this, Yuan Shu seemed to calm down a little and sat down and said, "How about 500,000 stones?" If 500,000 words are supposed to be able to be organized immediately, they will all be able to be sent to Yingchuan within half a month. ”

Xi Zhicai shook his head again and again: "This is the jade seal of the Son of Heaven to pass on the country, and this is the only one in the world." If General Ming is like this, Zhong can only take his leave. ”

After Xi Zhicai finished speaking, he stood up and prepared to say goodbye, Yuan Shu waved his hand again and again and said with a smile: "Sir, don't worry, sir, sit down and Rong Ben will think about it carefully and see if he can make up some, so let's do it, 500,000 stones will be shipped first, and when Wei Zhongdao sends the jade seal of the country, how about giving 200,000 stones?" ”

Xi Zhicai shook his head: "General Ming, my general and the 400,000 victims of the disaster in Henan are looking forward to food day and night. If General Ming is sincere, he can first have someone transport one million stones to his father's city, and then persuade my general to send someone to send the jade seal of the country to General Ming. Then the general sent the remaining 500,000 stone to the father city. This is the bottom line of my general's family, less than one million stones, and Zhong can't mention this matter to my general. I'm afraid that General Ming won't be able to see the jade seal of the country. ”

The corners of Yuan Shu's mouth twitched, he could hear it, this Wei Xuan wanted to exchange the jade seal of the country for one million stone grain with himself. It's a big appetite, and it's a big deal. However, he also felt in his heart that Wei Xuan's pricing was well thought out, and he would have made such a decision even if he had such a treasure and was in such a difficult situation.

But this is a million stones, and when these grains are in Wei Xuan's hands, they will definitely recruit troops on a large scale. Now that Wei Xuan has occupied the land of the three counties, and Sun Jian is an ally, it will be a little troublesome if he occupies Jingzhou and wants to go north in the future.

But this heirloom jade seal is too tempting, the fourth generation and the third prince of the Yuan family, if he can go one step further in his own hands, then Yuan Shao will have to bow his head and listen to his ears, and he will be the real head of the Yuan family in Runan in the future. It is even possible to use this heirloom jade seal to ascend the throne and become emperor one day.

Yuan Shu was very entangled, thinking that Wei Xuan's appetite was really big, otherwise he wouldn't have come to find it but would have gone directly to Yuan Shao himself. Thinking of Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu strengthened his determination to get the jade seal of the country, looked at Xi Zhicai, and tried again: "Sir, one million is too much, sir, see if you can do this, 700,000 stones, 700,000 stones will be shipped over first, and the remaining 300,000 will be delivered within a month." ”

Xi Zhicai saw Yuan Yuanshu loosen his mouth and knew that his general's guess was not bad. So he also had a bottom in his heart, pretended to ponder for a while, and then said with a look of embarrassment: "General Ming, let's do it, 700,000 stone grains will be sent to the father city first, and after the inspection is correct, General Ming can send someone to the father city to wait, and then advise my general to bring the heirloom jade seal to the father city." General Ming could send someone close to him or himself to go, and the rest would be made up with 300,000 stone of grain and 500,000 catties of fine iron, and traded in person. ”

Yuan Shu's eyes widened, he didn't expect Wei Xuan to also focus on Nanyang's fine iron, there is grain and fine iron, and he gave up most of Yuzhou, which is obviously the rhythm of marching into Chang'an. If this is the case, Yuan Shu is relieved, he feels that Wei Xuan's victory in Henan is purely luck, it is Dong Zhuo's perverse imposition on the Shangxi Liang soldiers, if Dong Zhuo does not forcibly move the capital, it is impossible to say that Wei Xuan is already competing with Kong Ling at this moment.

Wei Xuan asked for no 100,000 catties of fine iron, and this catty of iron was no more than ???????????????? It's worth 10 to 15 bucks. 500,000 catties is 5 million to 8 million yuan, and it is less than 20,000 or 30,000 stone to buy grain. In such a big deal, it can be purely regarded as a bonus. But although the value of fine iron is not high, the amount is so large, Yuan Shu has to think about it carefully. Because such a quantity of fine iron can arm about 10,000 heavy infantry or hoplites.

Seeing Yuan Shu's hesitation, Xi Zhicai hurriedly explained: "General Ming, I am dissatisfied with you, my general is preparing to be in Tuntian, Henan, and now that farm tools are scarce, these fine iron can also alleviate one or two." ”

Yuan Shu's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he believed that some of Xi Zhicai's words were credible. Even if he is given 1.5 million stone of grain according to Wei Xuan's request, according to Wei Xuan's ruining speed, each soldier will have nearly 20 stone a year, and the war horse will be ten times the soldier's martial arts, and it seems that the amount of food is just a year's food. So what's next? Tuntian is necessary! Where did the farming tools come from, of course, it was impossible to destroy the weapons in the hands of the soldiers to build them.

What Yuan Shu didn't believe was that Yu Xi Zhicai used 500,000 catties of refined iron to replace 100,000 stone of grain, which is equivalent to one pound of refined iron for one stone of grain, and such an exchange must be Yuan Shu's advantage. If you want to come to Weixuan, the psychological price is one million stone of grain, and fine iron is a bonus that you ask for by the way.

After thinking about it, Yuan Shu finally made up his mind, and then remembered one more thing, so he asked: "Sir, the general heard that there are many cavalry in Dong Zhuo's army, and now that Wei Zhongdao has defeated Dong Zhuo, there must be a lot of captured war horses, you can see if you can let Zhong Daoyun come out to the general, and it can be used to pass on news on weekdays." ”

Xi Zhicai looked embarrassed: "My general is bent on leading troops into Chang'an, and sooner or later he will have a battle with Dong Zhuo, and the current war horses in the army are also very limited." In this way, if General Ming agrees to this deal, Zhong will go back and persuade my general to sell a few hundred horses at a price of 300 stone of grain for a war horse. ”

Yuan Shu was speechless, he was born in a wealthy family, Wei Xuan is also a famous family, and only a few hundred war horses have to bargain in such a transaction, but the price of 300 stone grain for a war horse is not expensive, 10,000 stone grain can buy back more than 300 war horses, and the grain is gone after eating, and war horses are a scarce strategic resource in the mainland.

Thinking of this, Yuan Shu pondered in his heart for a while and continued: "Sir, do you think there are more war horses?" ”

Xi Zhicai shook his head: "General Ming, you still have to keep this matter secret for my general, if the chariot and Cao Mengde and other state and county magistrates know the news, they all use food to ask my general for exchange, my general can't come with so many war horses, won't he offend people." ”

Yuan Shu nodded, this is also the truth, and the more he wants, the less Wei Xuan, the war horse is a scarce strategic resource, and many times money can't buy it.

In the end, after several exchanges between the two sides, it was finally finalized, Yuan Shu first transported 500,000 stone grain to the father city, and then Wei Xuan sent someone to send the jade seal of the country to here, Yuan Shu sent Yuan Yin to check the authenticity of the jade seal of the country, and then Yuan Shu raised the remaining 500,000 grains and 500,000 catties of fine iron to trade face to face.

At the same time, both parties promised not to leak the transaction and the matter of the heirloom jade seal.

This transaction is truly mutually beneficial for both parties, each taking what they need. It seems that Yuan Shu has suffered a big loss, but in fact, the jade seal of the country is ambitious and noble to the people of this era, especially for Yuan Shu???????????????? of people are priceless.

He can continue to obtain grain and fine iron by looting the people of Nanyang, but the jade seal of the country is only one. Since Qin Shi Huang has been passed down to the present, there are eight characters written by Li Si on the divine power of the monarch and the longevity of Yongchang.

Yuan Shu felt that this was the will of heaven to let him get the heirloom jade seal, and the Yuan family no longer looked down on official positions such as Lu Shang Shushi and Taifu, he wanted to use the appeal of the heirloom jade seal to quickly occupy Jingzhou, capture Yangzhou, and even Yuzhou, and even command the world to be excited.

For Wei Xuan, buying and selling the jade seal of the country is naturally detrimental to his reputation, so even Jia Xu and Guo Jia and others have never known about it, because Jia Xu knows it, which means that Xu Rong and all the surrendered soldiers of Xiliang know. Guo Jia knew Xun Yu and knew it, and the entire Yingchuan clan knew about it.

Wei Xuan also has no choice, if he gives up Henan Yin and retracts back to Yingchuan, then he may lag behind Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu in the upcoming great era of competing heroes. Even Tao Qian and Liu Dai will go farther than him.

With this food, he can recruit a large number of disaster victims to settle the fields, and he can expand the army to 40,000, and there is no problem with a year's food.

Of course, Yuan Shu's name of transporting grain to Yingchuan was Wei Xuan's letter of help, and the reason was to help the 400,000 victims in Henan and ask someone to fill in the imperial tomb. As a general, Yuan Shu decided to support Wei Xuan, the hero of the crusade against Dong Zhuo, and the army was given 200,000 stones.

Later, Yuan Shu spread the word to the world, saying that he recognized Sun Jian, the assassin of Yuzhou, who was praised by Wei Xuan, and at the same time recognized that Sun Jian praised Wei Zheng of Yingchuan and Liu Bei, the prime minister of Lu State.

This series of operations by the two dazzled Yuan Shao, Han Fu in Hebei, Liu Dai, Cao Cao and others in Yanzhou. Some speculate that as a close ally, Yuan Shao blocked Wei Xuan's westward advance, causing the two to part ways, and Wei Xuan turned to Yuan Shu's support.

Yuan Shao was the most sensitive and believed in this statement, and after receiving the news, he was so angry that he almost spurted out a mouthful of old blood. Hurriedly summoned the searchers to discuss countermeasures.

After discussing for a long time, Yuan Shao couldn't help Wei Xuan and Yuan Shu at present. The only thing that can be done is to speed up the implementation of Guo Tu's proposal and buy the Southern Xiongnu Yufuluo to contain Wei Xuan.