"Master, that Zheng Bao didn't know what was crazy a few days ago, he didn't want to stay in Chaohu anymore, and wanted to move south to Jiangdong."

"If he moves south, he will move south, but he has to leave with everyone under his command."

"But those people under Zheng Bao's command are not all water thieves, a large part of them are just ordinary people who are attached to him, and they are all good people near Chaohu Lake, these people have lived near Chaohu Lake for generations, where are they willing to leave."

"So Zheng Bao thought of a way, and wanted me to persuade those people to leave with him."

"The apprentice is not stupid, this kind of thankless and easy to attract infamy thing, how can the apprentice do it."

"But it's not okay to refuse that Zheng Bao directly, after all, this person is quite powerful in the Chaohu area, and the disciple is afraid of offending this person, so he can only sneak out of the house, so that this person can't be found, and he won't be angry with the apprentice and the apprentice's family."

Liu Ye made a long story short, and briefly described the reasons why he came out of the house and Yuan Yao.

When Yuan Yao heard this, he nodded.

"Anyway, now you also worship me as a teacher, since the apprentice is in trouble, I, as a master, naturally can't stand by and watch, don't worry about this matter, the teacher will help you solve it."

Yuan Yao stretched out his hand and patted Liu Ye on the shoulder, he was not worried about Zheng Bao.

Originally, suppressing bandits was what Yuan Yao wanted to do, and when he was still in Lujiang, he had Zheng Bao's idea.

Originally, his plan was to take a two-month break after absorbing Chen Ce's men and horses, train the new army to strengthen his strength, and then take Zheng Bao and other dry water thieves to attack, but before he could find trouble with Zheng Bao, Yuan Shu let him go to Xuzhou.

The things that followed were also quite complicated, and Yuan Yao had been unable to take action to clean up this gang of thieves.

Now the war in Huaibei has calmed down. The mine in Bagong Mountain is also on the right track, and Yuan Yao only needs to arrange people to do things, and he doesn't need to personally control it here.

It's time to free up your hands and clean up this gang of mountain bandits, as long as the mountain bandits in the territory are cleared, Yuan Yao can get a lot of materials and money first, and secondly, he can also train his new army, which is simply a matter of killing two birds with one stone.

Time waits for no one, Yuan Shu only has less than two years left to live, and as soon as Yuan Shu dies, this huge Huainan, if Yuan Yao has not yet gained a firm foothold, Cao Cao, Lu Bu, Sun Ce and others will inevitably attack him.

What Yuan Yao needs now is time to speed up his growth and growth as much as possible.

Liu Ye heard Yuan Yao say this, and suddenly his face was overjoyed, if Yuan Yao can solve Zheng Bao, it will naturally be too good, no one wants to leave his hometown, he can stay in Huainan, naturally he doesn't want to leave this place where he was born and raised.

"Master, do you have a way to deal with Zheng Bao?"

"Just one Zheng Bao, is it more difficult than Cao Cao?"

Yuan Yao didn't care, for Zheng Bao's heroism, the threat was much smaller than that of a tyrant like Cao Cao.

He took Zheng Bao to make a move, which can be regarded as practicing his hands.

"Cao Cao! Master actually fought Cao Cao? ”

Surprised by Yuan Yao's answer, Liu Ye's face showed a hint of horror.

Although Yuan Yao's confrontation with Cao Cao was already a month ago, it stands to reason that the news had already spread throughout Huainan, but Liu Ye knew very little about the news circulating outside because he left his hometown and ran out to avoid trouble.

In addition, ordinary people don't know much about this kind of military situation, so he doesn't know much about this matter.

"That's natural, my son-in-law, with only 6,000 soldiers and horses in Zhu County, he blocked Cao Cao's 30,000 army for half a month!"

Tai Shici interjected at this time.

Although Tai Shi Ci did not directly participate in this battle, it was precisely because he heard about Yuan Yao's behavior that Tai Shi Ci admired Yuan Yao even more.

Who is Cao Mengde, who has been dominant in the Central Plains since the Dong Zhuo Rebellion, and now he supports the Han Emperor and has become one of the powerful princes in the late Han Dynasty.

Liu Ye couldn't help but gasp when he listened to Tai Shici's smug description.

"Master is so powerful?"

"It's nothing, you'll find out in the future that there are even more powerful teachers to teach."

"Okay, it's not early today, since you have nowhere to go, you can temporarily live in the porridge shed of Bagong Mountain for a while, there are still many things to do here in the porridge shed, if you are willing to help, you can go to Yan Xiang, he will arrange for you to do some things."

Liu Ye has just arrived here, and he is not familiar with the affairs of the porridge shed and the coal mine, so it is naturally not good for him to take over rashly, and he still needs to exercise for a few days to understand the process of some things.

And Yuan Yao and Tai Shici still have things to do, after collecting the money from those people, they need to increase production as soon as possible, and at the same time open up the roads in the surrounding counties and sell this honeycomb coal to the surrounding counties.

In fact, this matter is not what Yuan Yao plans to do now, he has long realized that Shouchun's sales are limited.

Therefore, when the mining began, the coal yard of this honeycomb coal was not set in Shouchun City, but in Bagong Mountain, which is a certain distance from Shouchun.

But in the same way, he is not far from Xia Cai County, as long as Yuan Yao is willing, he will soon be able to open up the transportation road in Xia Cai County.

You don't even have to deal with anything extra.

With honeycomb coal selling well in half a month of Shouchun, the reputation of honeycomb coal has already spread throughout several counties around Huainan County, although in those counties, there is no honeycomb coal for sale for the time being, but there are many people who have heard of honeycomb coal.

When Yuan Yao took people and repeated the trick, he first distributed 20,000 honeycomb coal for free in Xiacai County and gave it to passers-by, and the honeycomb coal market in Xiacai County was completely opened.

In just three days, the advance payment received exceeded 200,000 yuan!

However, after all, the population of Xiacai County is far less than that of Shouchun, and Yuan Yao estimates that the most sales volume in this county town can only be more than 10,000 honeycomb coal.

However, in this way, the demand of the two counties combined is nearly 40,000, which is enough for Yuan Yao to work for a while.

The 50 million funds were smashed down, the food of the miners was improved again, and more miners were recruited, and even Yuan Yao paid some salaries to the workers, making them more motivated.

In just a few days, the coal yard, which could only produce 30,000 honeycomb coal a day, also increased its output to 50,000 in a short period of time!

In this way, Yuan Yao is about to start opening up new markets again.

And this time, Yuan Yao set his sights on Liu Ye's hometown, Chengde County.