That night, Liu Jian hosted a banquet for Zhang Miao in his handsome tent, and at the same time discussed with him the cooperation between the Central Plains Eight Kitchen Group and the Hebei Commerce and Trade Association.

Liu Jian has a lot of ideas in his head, and at the same time, he also has a lot of hard currency in his hands, even if nothing else, but the most lacking grain in the Central Plains, if it is purchased from Hebei and sold in other hands, it will be enough for Liu Jian and the Eight Kitchen Group to make a lot of money.

Of course, the Central Plains is still relatively dilapidated now, and there is no excessive interest intake, and Liu Jian's main focus is on the commercial and trade channels to Jingzhou, Yangzhou, Yizhou, and Guanzhong through the Central Plains.

Hebei is far away from these places, and if it wants to promote large-scale economic and trade exchanges, it really needs the Eight Kitchen Group to operate in it.

In terms of the division of interests, Liu Jian will not treat the Eight Kitchen Group badly, and it has always been Liu Jian's principle to share the benefits in times of trouble.

Of course, this is the case in times of tribulation...... When the time of tribulation is over, it is difficult to say how everyone should behave.

At that time, everyone will eat according to their ability.

When Liu Jian and Zhang Miao were discussing cooperation, they also learned about the internal structure of Eight Kitchen Group from Zhang Miao.

In addition to the family of the eight chefs of the Central Plains, who are the "spokesmen" on the surface, there are still more than 50 scholars who have a large amount of wealth and land gathered in this group.

Of course, you don't just have the money to join!

It must be a scholarly family with a certain reputation, and at the same time, it must have good channels and strong capital, and ordinary Haoyou and Hanmen are not qualified to enter this interest group.

Most of these Central Plains scholars who joined it are modern literary families, but there are also some wealthy people who have a good relationship with the modern literary family.

Academic and political channels, there is nothing wrong with us fighting to the death with our ability, but everyone must learn to coexist hand in hand to make money in the local area, and we can't cheapen outsiders.

Could it be that if the rich Shimen family doesn't make money, it will not be given to those uneducated savages?

According to Zhang Miao, among these Shimen families who control the channels, in addition to the family of the Eight Chefs, there are also Chen Liujun's Jinwen family Bian Rang, and Dongjun Famous Chen Gong......

Hearing the two names that Zhang Miao said, Liu Jian probably smoothed out some things in his heart.

These people of the Eight Kitchen Group, just like the oligarchs in the world later, monopolized almost all important industries in Yanzhou, and at the same time, because of their status as high-ranking scholars, their political channels in the DPRK and China were extremely smooth.

There are these people in the Central Plains, and others in the Central Plains, as long as they meddle in the slightest matter related to the merchants of Yanzhou, they must pass through them!

This is a naked sitting tiger.

Liu Jian remembered that after Cao Cao entered Dongjun in history, one of the most sensational things he did was to directly kill the Yanzhou celebrity Bian Rang and kill all his wives and children!

After Bian Rang's death, it was soon Zhang Miao who welcomed Lu Bu into the Central Plains and fought with Cao Cao for hegemony in Yanzhou.

As for Chen Gong, a famous scholar in Dongjun, he used Bian Rang's death as a gimmick to call on all the scholars in the entire Yanzhou to fight against Cao!

The energy of this undercurrent of power was so great that Cao Cao lost the hearts of the people in Yanzhou almost overnight, and all counties rebelled one after another, almost unanimously standing on the side with Zhang Miao, Chen Gong and others.

Everywhere Lu Bu went, all parts of the country surrendered, without jerky obstacles, and finally Cao Cao only retained the three county towns of Juancheng, Fanxian and Dong'e in Yanzhou.

In the land of one state, there are hundreds of county seats...... In the end, only three counties were saved, how much of a percentage?

One can imagine how terrifying the entire Yanzhou's rebellion against Cao Cao was this time.

Is this just to avenge Bian Jean?

As for why Cao Cao killed Bian Rang and his wife and children, the history books simply record that it was because Bian Rang ridiculed Cao Cao.

It's a simple brushstroke.

Although he doesn't know the specific reason, Liu Jian can be sure that with Cao Cao's wisdom, coupled with the fact that he had just become the boss of Yanzhou at that time, his foundation was unstable, and it would definitely be impossible to kill Bian Rang's whole family simply because of a few curses.

Yanzhou Mingshi Group looked down on Cao Cao's status as a eunuch and insulted him, in fact, this should have been expected by Cao Cao a long time ago.

He has been alive in this kind of contempt for more than 30 years, why did he start to be confused when he arrived in Yanzhou?

To put it bluntly, ridicule is a façade.

After all, it was the gang represented by Cao Cao and Yuan Shao, who wanted to take advantage of the wealth and interests of the Yanzhou Baume & Mercier Group after occupying the field in Yanzhou.

Looking at what Zhang Miao said with himself, the resource interests of Bian Rang, Chen Gong, Zhang Miao and others in Yanzhou can be described as extremely consistent.

And what they control in their hands is exactly what Cao Cao and Yuan Shao are coveting.

That's where the root knots come in.

Whether it is ancient or modern, as long as the interests are in place, you can scold the mother.

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After agreeing with Zhang Miao on the general direction of cooperation, Liu Jian immediately ordered Zhang Miao to be released.

And it was a big fanfare, and Zhang Miao was let go in a very high-profile manner.

After learning about this, everyone immediately came to inquire.

"Brother, Brother Xuande is not easy, after all, Zhang Miao was captured and presented in front of his brother, even if the brother cooperated with the eight chefs and the like, it was for the benefit of Yanzhou...... But he was a prisoner of war after all, and he let him go so casually, wasn't his brother afraid of being deceived by Zhang Miao? ”

Liu Jian was standing in front of Yutu at the moment, squinting his eyes and staring at the location of Chang'an.

After looking at it for a while, Fang listened to him speak slowly: "Don't be afraid, in fact, the matter of cooperation, for Bian Rang, Chen Gong, Eight Kitchens and the like, the benefits are greater, compared to the fact that I need them, the other party should need me more at this moment." ”

After that, Liu Jian turned his head to look at Zhang Fei: "Don't worry, in a few days, the eight chefs and others will send envoys to negotiate this matter with me, and it is a very anxious kind of agreement, we can negotiate the conditions with them...... This is good for our economy and people's livelihood in Hebei, or for all Han people, even if it is a war season, but the circulation of commerce and trade economy cannot be abolished, and the people must live! ”

"Brother, you ......"

"Okay, Yide, this matter is not discussed for the time being, I have just received a report from Zini, saying that Dong Zhuo really ordered five thousand elite horsemen, and he is already leading the troops in the starry night, and intends to use the method of rushing to force the attack to carry out a surprise attack on us!"

When the generals heard this, they were all in high spirits.

Yan Liang and Wen Chou rubbed their hands.

"Dong Zhuo's old thief personally led the troops here, and the last officials and others asked for the order to attack! Behead the old thief and dedicate it to the general! ”

Liu Jian didn't answer, he just glanced back and forth at the people in the tent, but finally shook his head.

"This time, the task of ambush can't be handed over to any of you, Xiangguo has traveled thousands of miles to come in person, just for me Liu Jian, I have to personally meet Xiangguo for a while."

"After all, it is the prime minister of the dynasty, and you are not qualified enough to receive him."

"Generals, listen to my orders!"

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After Liu Jian's guidance, Guoyuan began to have targeted actions against Dong Zhuo's spying, and only because of this that he could find out useful information.

However, through this incident, Liu Jian also realized that his intelligence network was still not good enough, or not perfect enough.

But the next thing about the construction of the intelligence network is no longer something that can be smashed by him just by throwing money.

No matter how much money is thrown, experienced people are needed to deal with these intelligence issues on the front line.

Now, it's time to enhance the experience of the intelligence services.

This may be a delicate job.

But this time, after the special guidance of Liu Jian and Jia Xu, Guoyuan still found the way, and at the last critical moment, Dong Zhuo's march route was investigated.

Of course, this kind of military secret that the other side is running thousands of miles away, Guoyuan still can't completely and accurately verify.

However, he can at least determine the time when the opponent will come to play.

At the same time, it also provides the opponent with five routes to attack the troops.

The scope has narrowed, but for Liu Jian, it is still a headache.

The scope of five routes is still too large.

The problem now in front of Liu Jian is either to determine and select the route of Dong Zhuo's army, and then send troops to ambush him on the route of his army.

The important ones are to stick to their own Dazhai and wait for Dong Zhuo to lead his troops to attack his Dazhai and ambush them in the village.

Although these two methods can be regarded as grasping the opportunity, the risk and loss of ambush in Dazhai are still much better than ambushing on his way.

But the five routes are still a little difficult to choose after all......

If you make the wrong choice, it will be self-defeating.

But at this critical moment, Jia Xu stood up.

Based on his understanding of Dong Zhuo, he determined the route for Liu Jian to come to Dong Zhuo.

As the saying goes, knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent will win all battles.

Jia Xu chose a route for Liu Jian that Dong Zhuo would come, and at the same time explained his reasons, but as for whether to believe it or not to adopt it, it depends on Liu Jian himself.

After all, Jia Xu only made a judgment based on his understanding of Dong Zhuo, and this judgment will be very accurate, but not absolute.

It depends on whether Liu Jian dares to use it.

After two full hours of thinking, Liu Jian finally made up his mind.

There is no 100% success rate in everything in the world!

As long as the odds are more than half, it's worth his try!

He doesn't want to be the kind of person who is scheming!

Liu Jian immediately made a decision, led the soldiers and horses to personally go to the road chosen by Jia Xu to ambush and make proper arrangements.

According to Guoyuan's intelligence, Dong Zhuo's 5,000 elite cavalry, the vanguard were Li Dao and Guo Yan.

Li Dao and Guo Yan are greedy and violent, wolf ambitions, and their soldiers and horses have been on the battlefield for a long time, killing people like hemp, and they are all wild wolves fed by human flesh and blood.

It needs to be treated with caution.

(End of chapter)