For Yuan Yao to send troops to help, Zheng Bao is naturally very welcome.

Before he fully gained Yuan Yao's trust, Zheng Bao did not plan to involve his second and third brothers, and wanted to deal with Sun Ce and recapture Danyang County, just relying on Zheng Bao's men was not enough.

If Zheng Bao didn't rely on the water thieves of his two younger brothers, the private soldiers he could command in his hands would be only four or five thousand people.

This bit of manpower, if they are all elite, attacking one or two county seats, it is naturally no problem, but if you want to defeat the entire Danyang County, it will still be a little stretched.

If Yuan Yao can help him with some soldiers and horses, then his chances of capturing Danyang will be much greater.

And if Yuan Yao can help him defeat Danyang, then Zheng Bao's gratitude to Yuan Yao will be even better.

After all, Yuan Yao took the initiative to woo him, and if he didn't help with this, he couldn't say anything.

After discussing the details of the attack on Danyang, Yuan Yao took the initiative to chat with Zheng Bao about honeycomb coal.

In fact, the last time Yuan Yao came to Zhengjiawu Fort, he planned to talk to him about honeycomb coal, after all, Yuan Yao always took a fancy to the transportation capacity of Zheng Bao's subordinates.

As long as Zheng Bao can hand over the ships and transportation fleet to Yuan Yao to manage, Yuan Yao's honeycomb coal business can be improved many times again.

At that time, the income will be greatly increased, and it will not be a problem to achieve hundreds of millions of honeycomb coal turnover in a short period of time.

In that way, Yuan Yao will have money to expand his army and improve the combat strength of his troops, and even Yuan Yao himself will have the ability to break away from Yuan Shu and establish himself as a prince.

Zheng Bao has naturally heard of honeycomb coal, after all, in the past month, honeycomb coal has become very famous in the Shouchun area.

There are even people who go to the mountains to dig coal without permission, and then imitate the honeycomb coal.

However, the honeycomb coal they imitated has always only been in its shape, not elite, and the honeycomb coal that is burned out not only has a lot of smoke, but even has a choking smell, which is unacceptable.

These imitation honeycomb coals only appeared on the market for a few days, and they were quickly purchased and disliked.

Originally, these imitators may also want to disrupt the honeycomb coal market, but they didn't expect that doing so would make Yuan Yaode's honeycomb coal specialty store do better.

No one dared to buy those honeycomb coals from unknown sources.

Although Zheng Bao had heard of honeycomb coal, he was not in Shouchun after all, and in Chengde County, honeycomb coal was only sold a few days ago, so Zheng Bao had only heard of it, and he had not fully understood it.

When Yuan Yao said that he wanted to use the ships under Zheng Bao's command to transport honeycomb coal and then sell it to various places, Zheng Bao naturally agreed without the slightest hesitation.

After all, it's something that benefits both sides.

Yuan Yao borrowed Zheng Baode's ship to transport goods, but he would still pay for it, and he would not give it in vain, and Zheng Bao could also borrow Yuan Yao's name to get a relationship with Yuan Yao.

Yuan Yao was also able to transport the route through Zheng Bao's fleet, which greatly reduced the time consumption, and at the same time, with Zheng Bao's fleet, it was also able to ensure the safety of the goods to a large extent.

In this way, the two sides quickly reached an agreement, and it was agreed that the next day they could start transporting honeycomb coal by ship.

After solving this problem, for Yuan Yao, it was a hanging stone that fell to the ground.

Zheng Bao's surrender, although it did not allow Yuan Yao to play the role of training recruits, but with Zheng Bao's help, on the contrary, it could bring more benefits to Yuan Yao.

These ships alone helped Yuan Yao transport honeycomb coal, which could quickly meet the needs of honeycomb coal in seven or eight counties around Shouchun.

If it weren't for Yuan Yao's Bagongshan Honeycomb Coal Company's output, there would be no way to increase it rapidly for the time being, and he would have hoped to expand the honeycomb coal market a little more.

In just three days, Yuan Yao used Zheng Bao's fleet to expand the honeycomb coal to several nearby counties.

Originally, there was only honeycomb coal for sale in Shouchun, Xia Cai County, and Chengde County, and soon it was sold to Hefei, Ping'a, Quyang and other places.

These places are all counties with a small concentration of population, and although the number of people is not too many, it is still much more than the cities in the north.

In addition, in the counties in the south, there is no persecution of horse thieves, Xiongnu and so on, many people do not actually live in the county seat, and there are many villages outside the county seat, in these villages, there are hundreds of people, more than thousands.

It is also a batch of consumption power, but it is a pity that Yuan Yao does not plan to sell his honeycomb coal to the village at present.

The people who live in the city are the rich and the audience of honeycomb coal.

Calculated in several cities, Yuan Yao's sales of honeycomb coal in one day were as high as 60,000 or 70,000.

This is still very stressful for coal mines that have just increased their output to 40,000 or 50,000.

The number of displaced people recruited every day is about to rise to another notch.

Fortunately, these things are not difficult for Yuan Yao, with Yan Xiang in charge of these things, he can be a hands-off shopkeeper.

Recently, there is a little apprentice Liu Ye, who has worked tirelessly to help out at the porridge shed, so Yuan Yao is not busy.

After getting acquainted with the newly recruited people for a few more days and slowly increasing the output, Yuan Yao's coal yard gradually entered a regular one, and he didn't even need to go there to stay in person.

However, Yuan Yao was not idle, although he was staring at the coal mine on the one hand, on the other hand, he still had to help Zheng Bao implement this trick.

After all, the matter of recruiting Ande was just wishful thinking on the part of Yuan Yao, without Yuan Shude's instructions, after getting Zheng Baode's answer, Yuan Yao personally went to the Shouchun Palace to meet his father Yuan Shu.

When he told Yuan Shu about going to Chengde County to recruit Zheng Baode, Yuan Shu did not refuse.

After all, Yuan Shu is not stupid, Zheng Bao is a good man in the green forest, it is naturally very good to be able to win over, anyway, he just promised a miscellaneous general who has no effect, and Yuan Shu is not at a loss.

As for the so-called Dedanyang Taishou, it is even more Yuan Shu who doesn't care.

The current Danyang is not controlled by Yuan Shu at all, it was given to Zheng Bao, and he hoped that Zheng Bao could help him fight back.

Yuan Shu wished that Zheng Bao could help him regain control of Danyang County.

In this way, Yuan Shu quickly drew up an edict and asked Yuan Yao to take it and hand it over to Zheng Bao.

Of course, when Yuan Yao took this canonization edict and gave it to Zheng Bao, Zheng Bao's face was full of excitement.

After all, with this thing, he has rightfully become a nobleman.

It's no longer the ordinary people it used to be.