The first year after the expeditionary force set off.

Lu Bu led [-] soldiers and horses under him, completed the supply of cavalry in Bingzhou, and rectified more than [-] elite cavalry.

Then he killed thirteen generals under the Shanyu of the Southern Huns.

Completely subdued those Southern Huns who were a little restless in their hearts, had already developed a dissatisfaction with the Han court, and wanted to swallow up Bingzhou secretly.

After this battle, Lu Bu confirmed his peerless reputation in the eyes of the Southern Huns.

Later, he forced the Southern Huns Shanyu to lead his army to conquer with him.

The Southern Huns were forced to be helpless and bound to Lu Bu's chariot.

However, in this regard, the Southern Huns did not have much rebellious heart in their hearts.

The reason is naturally that Lu Bu is too strong, and more importantly, such a strong person is still their ally!
Do you think this kind of thing is outrageous?
With such a powerful ally by their side, they can do many things only by beating them.

Besides, this trip is to go to the depths of the grassland to fight back the place where their ancestors lived.

Although these people don't have any rural complex.

But for things like revenge, no matter what kind of people they are, they will be very enthusiastic.

With the leading parties like the Southern Huns.

Since then, Lu Bu has never worried about getting lost on the grassland.

In addition, this trip mobilized almost all the military forces and civilian resources of the Southern Huns.

The supply of the army along the way is the cattle and sheep they graze.

At first, the northern Xiongnu army looked down on Lu Bu, a little-known young general.

In addition, the Southern Huns who had been beaten away by themselves ran over again.

They are naturally arrogant and terrifying.

In the beginning, we must use an absolutely superior force to surround and kill Lu Bu and others on this grassland.

Unfortunately.

They miscalculated Lu Bu's strength, and roughly estimated that the military qualities that Qin Yu had carefully cultivated had crushed contemporary professional soldiers.

Just touch it.

The Northern Huns cavalry was completely crushed.

Even riding and archery, the military means they are best at flying kites.

In front of the excellent armor that Qin Yu equipped these elite soldiers.

It's just like scratching an itch.

In addition, the realm strength of these soldiers themselves is extremely tyrannical.

The weakest ones are now full of true qi.

When they also started riding and shooting.

The ten-stone strong bow in his hand completely ignored the range disadvantage caused by being kited.

On the contrary, outside the range of the kite-flying cavalry of the Northern Huns, they used cavalry and shooting to carry out a wave of bloodbath on them first.

Galloping on the grassland, these Huns who don't have many resources themselves have seen such a terrifying army?

After a wave of being beaten dizzy, the result was that they couldn't even run away.

The whole army of 200,000 they gathered.

He was killed by Lu Bu with a wave of Southern Huns.

For such a result, Lu Bu was not surprised at all.

The soldiers behind him are first-class elite soldiers.

And those so-called Northern Huns with 200,000 troops.

There is no such thing as a professional soldier in them.

Most of the 200,000-strong army are no more than former herders.

These herders got on their horses and became soldiers.

The hamsters that were killed now ran away, and waited until Lu Bu wiped them all out.

What they left behind were tribes consisting of old and weak women and children.

Naturally, it became Lu Bu's trophy.

For these trophies, Lu Bu naturally followed the reward and punishment method that Qin Yu had already formulated.

According to the amount of military merit, some of the cattle and sheep were distributed to those of the Southern Huns.

The remaining cattle and sheep are slaughtered on the spot and used as military rations.

As for things like fur and goods, they sent all the people back to Luoyang.

The Southern Huns looked enviously at the continuous carts of goods heading towards Luoyang City.

Compared with the cattle and sheep they had been allocated before, it was really terrifying.

They are inevitably greedy in their hearts, but they also know that these things were not brought down by themselves.

Someone once expressed dissatisfaction with Lu Bu in the barracks after being drunk.

The next day, all those who drank with him were dealt with by military law, and their heads were hung on the gate of the camp.

It's brutal.

The Southern Huns were naturally dissatisfied and fearful.

But no one dared to mutiny, nor dared to have the slightest rebellious heart.

There is no other reason, just because Lu Bu's strength is too strong, and his army is too elite.

Even if they want to rebel, they have no chance of success.

Instead of being envious and jealous of those goods that have been sent back to Luoyang City.

It would be better to set your sights on the royal court of the Northern Huns.

As long as the royal court can be defeated, and they make enough contributions in this battle.

In the end, are you still afraid that the loot will not be allocated?
They all knew very well that for a peerless murderer like Lu Bu, when he was in Luoyang, he followed that Prime Minister Qin Yu and Qin.

I thought Qin Yu, the prime minister, didn't have much ability.

But now it seems that they really underestimated Qin Yu.

I also underestimated the horror of the big man.

Now that they have restrained their mentality, they only regard Qin Yu as the peak powerhouse among the big men.

As long as someone can suppress Lu Bu, they will not believe that Lu Bu can really take the risk of offending Qin Yu, ignore the law and insist on deducting the military merits that should belong to them.

Once this behavior is done, it is self-destructive.

So, in the third month after the army went out.

Lu Bu had already rushed to the depths of the grassland with his men.

In the fourth month, the northern Huns mobilized heavy troops and wanted to fight Lu Bu again.

It was broken again by Lu Bu.

In the fifth month, the trophies captured earlier were sent back to Luoyang City.

Then, through the merchant families in Qin Yu's hands, he quickly exchanged these spoils for gold and silver property.

into the treasury.

Naturally, some of the gold and silver properties harvested back became dividends for the 'shareholders' who had previously invested in Qin Yu's grand strategy.

The largest shareholder among them is naturally Liu Hong.

But even with Liu Hong's shares, it is not too much in front of the treasury of the entire big man.

But even so, when this wave of wealth came back, Liu Hong was given at least two shares worth three gongs.

Such a free gift of money made Liu Hong very happy.

Before this, he never thought that he could make money like this.

As long as he puts money in and wins the battle, he will be rewarded very generously.

And not only is there money to be made, but more importantly, he is now at war with foreign countries!
In foreign wars, he didn't need to bear much financial expenditure by himself, but some made money.

In addition, this kind of behavior is expanding the territory.

Throughout the four hundred years of the Great Han Dynasty, there are too few emperors who can achieve the same achievements as he is now.

If this battle can really win the Huns.

Doesn't he want to directly reproduce the achievements of Emperor Wu?

Liu Hong never dreamed that one day he would be able to be compared with Emperor Wu.

But such a dream is now within reach.

How could he not be excited by this?
After the dividends are paid this time.

Liu Hong ran over to Qin Yu without hesitation: "Ai Qing, I have something urgent!"

"I feel that although the three elites you sent out, Aiqing, are strong, their numbers are too small."

"And I have many sons and daughters, so how can I not let more sons participate in such a good thing of making contributions and defending the country?"

"I think, Aiqing, you are afraid that you are trapped because of the lack of money in the previous treasury, so I decided to invest more in you now!"

"I have also saved a lot of money in the West Garden over the years, you take all of it, and treat it as my support for you, don't be polite to me!"

Qin Yu replied with a smile: "Then I would like to thank Your Majesty first. I will count the money from Your Majesty and return it to the shares."

Liu Hong laughed loudly: "Aiqing, what you said is really a bit out of the ordinary. It is my duty to contribute money to defend against foreign enemies. Why do you need to make shares or something like that?"

Qin Yu said: "Your Majesty's words are wrong. All the money goes into the national treasury, and the investment in our Han army must be treated equally. Only in this way can the people who have money and food in the world feel at ease. This is also the basis of our reputation."

Liu Hong said with a smile: "I don't understand what you said, but I believe in you. In the future, just follow what you said. No matter what the result is, I will always stand behind you, so you can rest assured." Do it boldly!"

After that, he left happily.

Then he returned to the palace and waited for the next batch of dividends to arrive.

And with Qin Yu's first batch of dividends issued before.

Those merchants and aristocratic families who had invested part of Qin Yu's money also reacted.

It's a big business and it pays off!
Especially those merchants whose status had been raised by Qin Yu before.

Although they have to pay more taxes to Qin Yu now.

But now the big men are no matter their business activities or their status as businessmen.

It's much better than before.

more importantly.

Qin Yu paid them dividends according to the agreement, let them see Qin Yu's sincerity, and Qin Yu's reputation.

They thought that the so-called investments that Qin Yu had stolen from them.

It's just a trick to take money from them.

No one thought of it.

The wealth that Qin Yu took away from them was really just like what Qin Yu had told them before.

It has become a tool that can continue to make money for them and continue to grab benefits.

Moreover, the difficulty and speed of making money this way is much safer than it seemed that they were doing business everywhere before.

Today, the four major merchant families are all thinking about the feasibility of continuing to increase their holdings in the future.

And at this time.

With one decree from Qin Yu, it was distributed to various states and counties.

He is going to start opening banks in various states and counties.

The people in various states and counties can deposit their surplus money in the bank, and by depositing it in the bank, they can get a certain amount of profit on a regular basis.

And these money and goods can also be invested in the army shares in the bank.

As long as Ming's troops obtain property from external development, they can also obtain sufficient rewards from these properties.

At the same time, Qin Yu also encouraged these common people to devote themselves to commerce and various handicraft industries.

Encourage the reclamation of wasteland.

The population is sufficient today, but there has been no way of placing these people in the positions suitable for them.

In other words, there is no shortage of labor force, what they lack is only social jobs to create wealth.

Qin Yu himself is very clear.

In fact, ancient people were not lacking in creativity at all.

The experience and wisdom of the ancestors must not be underestimated.

The reason why the various tools of farming civilization seem to have not developed much since the Zhou Dynasty.

It's just because of political needs.

Once the production tools are continuously iterated, the difficulty of farming the land will be greatly reduced.

There are not enough jobs to accommodate the emerging population in society.

At that time, there will naturally be instability that threatens the dynasty.

But these things are nothing to Qin Yu.

Not to mention that after his road of emphasizing commerce and heavy industrialization, many jobs that did not exist before will inevitably appear in today's society.

This will result in a huge population cost.

It's just those lands that have been pioneered and created through foreign wars.

It is also enough to digest a large number of people.

If the population growth rate further increases with material affluence.

There is also the possibility of immigration.

In the future, the Ganges Plain and the Mongolian grassland will need a large population.

There is even a shortage of people in the Northeast.

Just wipe out all those barbarians who don't obey discipline over there.

After opening up a huge plain.

It must be able to provide a large amount of food every year.

It's just that if you want to open up the Northeast, resisting the severe cold is the first thing to do.

All in all, Qin Yu is not afraid of population explosion at all.

On the contrary, he looked forward to such a scene even more.

Sixth month.

With the arrival of the second batch of goods and materials.

The profits gained from the expedition to the Huns have greatly exceeded Liu Hong's previous expectations.

Another month passed.

Good news came from the border.

The royal court of the Huns was completely broken by Lu Bu and the Southern Huns.

A large number of Huns began to flee deeper into the grassland.

Lu Bu didn't want to let go of the good opportunity to harvest.

Then he took the cavalry of the Southern Huns to continue hunting.

It was not until he arrived near Lake Baikal that Lu Bu stopped his pursuit.

At this time, the Huns had been beaten to pieces.

And the supplies accumulated by the Southern Huns over the years have also been consumed by Lu Bu.

Lu Bu did not continue to go deep, but returned to the court with many Hun slaves.

Along the way, the Xiongnu slaves suffered numerous casualties.

When they returned to Luoyang, there were less than [-] of the hundreds of thousands of slaves they brought with them when they set out.

These slaves naturally became the materials captured by Lu Bu.

The slave matter was also Qin Yu's arrangement.

He is not going to turn back the clock on history.

Regression from this feudal dynasty back to slavery.

However, he did not intend to change the slave status of these people.

With less than [-] slaves, naturally the foundation of the dynasty cannot be shaken.

There are these slaves.

It just filled the vacancies brought about by those who devoted themselves to handicrafts and commerce.

They are now the lowest working class in society.

All the hard work falls on them.

Things like land reclamation, if it were done by ordinary farmers.

What needs to be consumed may be the savings and hard work of the entire family.

But just use these slaves to do it.

The cost will be greatly reduced.

At the same time, it also opened up more means of production for the Han people.

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