Yuan Shu and Yuan Shaoqin sang and harmonized in harmony, coupled with the princes' vigilance against Zhuang Shaoyou's economic invasion, a big war was inevitable.

Yuan Shu, the leader of the alliance, learned Yuan Shao's routine back then, and began to send envoys everywhere to mobilize the heroes of the world to raise troops to defeat Zhuang Shaoyou.

On November 22, Zhang Yang, the Taishou of the Shangdang, announced that he had responded to Yuan Shu's call and raised troops to attack Zhuang Shaoyou.

On November 23, Sun Zhan, the Taishou Gonggong of Beiping, announced his participation in the coalition army; On the same day, Liu Bei also followed in the footsteps of Gongsun Zhan to announce the cavalry.

On November 24, Jingzhou Mu Liu Biao raised troops in response to Yuan Shu's call.

Other than that, the rest of the princes did not move, but it is unknown what their plans were in private.

On November 28, the first snow of the winter fell on the northern land, although the scale is not large, but it also indicates that the middle of winter is approaching, and this year is not suitable for war.

When the princes were busy raising troops, Zhuang Shaoyou would naturally not be idle, three years of preparation had been very sufficient, and everything in front of him was completely expected!

The big war of the coming year will be waged in Yanzhou, and its Puyang will become its focus.

After three years of repair and addition, Puyang has become a huge military fortress, the original three-zhang city wall has been raised by one zhang four, reaching an astonishing height of five zhang! The armament facilities on the city wall have become more perfect, and the Mo family's mechanism skills have also been brought into full play here, and the city is equipped with eight lifting mechanisms, which can be driven by manpower to transport military supplies to the city, saving time and effort! The entire city addition project is similar to building a new Puyang New City! It took more than 300 million dollars to complete!

Now Puyang is already a giant beast armed to the teeth, terrifying!

After the first snow of the year, Zhuang Shaoyou issued a mobilization order, announcing that 200,000 strong men would be recruited from the land of Yanzhou, and the project to be carried out was to dig the moat!

In order to keep a low profile, although Puyang has been increasing, it has not excavated a moat, because there are only two cities with moats in the entire Han Dynasty, Chang'an and Luoyang, which are also the capitals of the two Han Dynasty, and the rest of the cities have no moats.

The matter of Puyang digging the moat shook the world again, and the princes were very angry, and they publicly accused Zhuang Shaoyou of being disobedient, but Zhuang Shaoyou didn't bother to pay attention to this and didn't explain it at all.

And Zhuang Shaoyou's inaction completely angered the world's heroes, and more and more people announced that they would join the crusade army.

And all this is also planned in Zhuang Shaoyou.

As the so-called desire to add sin, why is there no excuse?

They just lack a reason, and the world lacks everything, that is, there is never a lack of reasons. So Zhuang Shaoyou simply created a good reason for them, and the purpose was very clear, come and beat me! It's equivalent to a group ridicule.

With Zhuang Shaoyou's prestige, it was easy to recruit 200,000 strong men in Yanzhou, and the construction began in three days, and two nearby legions came to help.

There are also many princes who saw the inappropriateness of this matter and wanted to stop Zhuang Shaoyou from digging the moat, but they were powerless and lonely.

Just when the princes were powerless, their eyes were attracted by another thing. Merchants in Bingzhou, Jizhou, Yuzhou, and Jingzhou announced their withdrawal from the local market, and overnight, they withdrew with their own assets.

At first, the princes didn't take it seriously, but soon, they realized that something was wrong!

After the merchants of southern Liaoning withdrew from the market, the princes' territories quickly declined, and the original prosperity quickly withdrew, which was really overwhelming!

It also caused panic among the native merchants in the territory, and the price of grain in the barren land was the first to rise, one price a day, and soon exceeded the range of what the people could bear; As soon as the price of food rose, the rest of the daily necessities also soared, and there was chaos in the princes' territories.

It is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it is difficult to go from luxury to thrift!

However, Zhang Yang of Bingzhou, Yuan Shu of Huainan and Liu Biao of Jingzhou were all stubborn, trying their best to control the situation in the territory, and forcibly required the merchants to open positions to stabilize the price of grain, causing the merchants in the territory to complain, but under the threat of force, the merchants still chose to give in. But the seeds of hatred are beginning to sprout.

Moreover, without the support of the merchants of southern Liaoning, the supply in the princes' territories was indeed in short supply, because the princes, who were accustomed to exchanging gold and silver, and exchanging special products for goods and grain, could not understand what was meant by unbalanced economic development. When the merchants of southern Liaoning brought exquisite goods and grain, they also brought inertia to the locals, and over the years, the merchants of southern Liaoning used various means to suppress local threatening competitors, turning the merchants in the princes' territories into commercial puppets of southern Liaoning, and those local merchants did not know it.

At the end of the month, the delisting turmoil gradually subsided, although it had broken its muscles and bones, but on the surface, there was nothing wrong with it. The princes summed up the results of this year, especially paid attention to the problem of Zhuang Shaoyou, only to find that they had been on Zhuang Shaoyou's job all these years!

Those princes who participated in the last coalition found that the most inconspicuous terms of the peace treaty had become a nightmare for the princes of the world now!

A storm of purging merchants in southern Liaoning swept across the land of China, but Zhuang Shaoyou had already prepared and had already summoned the merchants back in advance.

Anyway, the core businessmen in southern Liaoning were evacuated in time, and an economic depression began to brew in the Han Dynasty.

For such a remarkable effect, Zhuang Shaoyou's subordinates were all surprised and inexplicable, even Zhou Tian, the director of the Department of Commerce and Trade, was no exception, but Zhuang Shaoyou said something like this lightly:

"It's a simple business war! I mint the currency, I produce the goods, I grow the grain, and most importantly, I set the rules! With the right people at the right time, we can't think of any reason not to win! Remember, don't play any games with the rule-makers! Rules that we ourselves have not participated in are categorically unacceptable! Otherwise, someone will be sold and still help others count the money! ”

Tian Feng questioned this: "General, is it a pity to give up all of the three years of accumulation like this?" If you brew it a little more, you can achieve even greater results! ”

Zhuang Shaoyou shook his head: "That's almost!" In the final analysis, these costs still have to be borne by the innocent people in the world, and there is always harm to heaven and peace! Moreover, they are starting to get angry now, because they don't want to be slaves, and when they find out that they need to be slaves, there will be many people who will take the initiative to wag their tails at General Ben! There is no shortage of spineless people in this world! ”

On December 22, the second snow of the year will be in the original land, and this snow will fall heavily, for three days in a row, and the whole world will be covered in snow.

The moat project outside Puyang City also stopped, and the strong men returned to their hometowns with generous rewards to start preparing for the New Year.

The waterway of the Yellow River has been completely frozen, the naval division corps has withdrawn to the location of the estuary, and a new naval port has been built at the mouth of the Yellow River in Le'an County, Qingzhou, where warships can be moored.

Before the New Year, Zhuang Shaoyou remade the strategic deployment.

Tai Shici's First Cavalry Corps and Huang Zhong's First Infantry Corps were stationed in Puyang, and Bao Xin's Fifth Legion was stationed in Jibei and Luxi, and the above three corps were responsible for defending the Yellow River and preventing Yuan Shao from taking advantage of the Yellow River to freeze and attack.

The Second Infantry Corps was still stationed in Taishan County, guarding the main road to Xuzhou.

Guan Hai's Fourth Army was stationed in Qingzhou, and Sun Guan's Third Army was stationed in Dingtao to guard against Yuzhou and Chenliu.

Because of strategic needs, Zhuang Shaoyou sent people to bring Momei, Cai Yan, Gongsun Linglong, Liu Xuan, Gao Yingying, Ruhua Ruyu and other wives and four children to Puyang for the New Year.

Zhuang Shaoyou's Changzhuang Chu is four years old, and Chu's mother is Mo Mei; Cai Yan's second name is the tenth year, and he is less than a year old! Gongsun Linglong and Ruhua gave birth to two daughters, both of whom were less than two years old.

Gongsun Du was completely disheartened, and he began to fight in the north and south, trying to lay a foundation for himself.