Guo Jia, the ghost of the strongest military division

Chapter 51 Everything is ready

The battle is over.

This time, Guo Jia made the [-] thieves in Taihang Mountain retreat without a single soldier, and forged a good relationship with Zhang Yan.

"Your Majesty!"

Seeing Zhang Yan's people leaving Lunu City in a mighty manner, Xu Shu was a little puzzled.

This is a good opportunity to recruit Zhang Yan, why didn't Guo Jia mention it?

Ha ha!

Guo Jia smiled lightly.

"Yuan Zhi, do you think that a man who commands countless thieves would surrender to me, the prefect, so easily?"

Xu Shu was suddenly at a loss for words.

It's not that Guo Jia doesn't want to recruit Zhang Yan, it's just that he can't do it now.

First of all, Zhang Yan's subordinates are numerous and powerful, and he dominates the Taihang Mountains, and the governments all over the country can't do anything to him.The mountain is high and the emperor is far away, so it can be regarded as the emperor of one side.

Although Zhang Yan had great admiration for Guo Jia in this battle, it was still very difficult to persuade him to surrender. After all, there were still many hills on Taihang Mountain, and it was not something he could decide alone.

Secondly, there are good and bad bandits in the Taihang Mountains. There are heroes, and there are criminals. It takes Guo Jia to spend a lot of energy to deal with this group of problematic troops.

How can he have the time now?

In the end, money, or money.

With [-] more soldiers under his command, Zhongshan County's expenses are skyrocketing. If he hadn't just taken down the fat sheep of the Zhang family, Guo Jia would have gone bankrupt long ago. Where would he have spare money to support tens of thousands of bandits?
Besides, soldiers are more expensive than elites. The 1 men under him have been well trained, and their combat effectiveness is not inferior to the tens of thousands of bandits in the Taihang Mountains.

Of course, Guo Jia has another consideration for making a good relationship with Zhang Yan.

After the Yellow Turban Uprising, although there were signs of military recruitment and separatism in various places, the real warlord separatism was after Dong Zhuo's chaos, that is, in [-] AD.

There are still four or five years to go during this period. Guo Jia naturally wants to expand his territory, and suppressing bandits is a good reason.

Guo Jia can use the excuse of suppressing bandits to recruit troops and buy horses to expand his territory.

After eradicating the Zhang family and wisely repelling the bandits in Taihang Mountain, Guo Jia's reputation is already in full swing.

Needless to say, the Su family and the Zhen family, other small and medium families also expressed their affection.

For a while, Guo Jia became the object of Zhongshan celebrities rushing to visit.

A visit is a fake, but an intimacy is real.

The prefect was a ruthless character, he wiped out the largest wealthy family, the Zhang family, as soon as he entered Zhongshan, and then repelled the looting of tens of thousands of thieves in Taihang Mountain.

They dare not not come, and they cannot not come.

Of course, you can't come empty-handed. Food, cloth, horses, cattle and sheep are continuously sent to Lu Nu.

Guo Jia naturally did not refuse anyone who came.

At the same time, he took the opportunity to promote Zhongshan's plan to become a free border trade port.

With the secret support of the Su family and the Zhen family, this plan was quickly approved by the major families in Zhongshan.

They are not fools either, knowing that once the free trade zone is completed, all the big families in Zhongshan will rise, so they will spare no effort in the implementation of the plan.

Guo Jia raised some gold beads and sent someone to secretly deliver them to Luoyang's ten permanent servants. The court naturally had no objection to Guo Jia's proposal.

Soon, Guo Jia's plan of border trade free port was successfully implemented.

Lunau became the first tax-free port of trade.

The horse market has always been a channel for the Han Dynasty to trade with ethnic minorities, but the merchants have been exploited as a way of making money for the various border customs and governments.

Now suddenly the entire border county has been opened up to become a big city, and there is no tax. How can the businessmen not like it?

Ever since, merchants from the Xiongnu, Wuhuan, and Xianbei sent people to negotiate and brought a few samples.The entire Lunu City has become their product display area.

Here, they have different feelings.

In Zhongshan, they do not need to pay taxes, and they are not afraid of being bullied.

Because the prefect has already promised.

When doing business in Zhongshan, the government does not take any money. If anyone dares to bully them, they will be punished by Zhongshan soldiers.

Businessmen seek profit.

Businessmen from the mainland also came here after hearing the news, and they smelled money here.

Guo Jia handed over the project to Man Chong and Mao Jie, both of whom are internal affairs talents.With the help of Su Zhen and other Zhongshan family, the plan was gradually promoted.

Things at the free trade port were gradually on the right track, and Guo Jia immediately began to train the ten thousand soldiers.

Power comes out of the barrel of a gun, this is an eternal truth.

Once the free trade port is built, Zhongshan County will definitely become a geomantic treasure land where every inch of land is expensive, and it is no problem to make money every day.The huge income will inevitably be coveted by the major forces in the surrounding area. If he wants to keep the fruits of victory, Guo Jia must have a strong army under his command.

These [-] county soldiers have a good foundation, most of them are locals from Zhongshan, and there is no big problem with their loyalty.

Guo Jia divided the ten thousand soldiers into cavalry and infantry.

There are 2000 cavalry, divided into two teams.There are thousands of people in each team, led by Zhao Yun and Xu Huang respectively.

8000 infantrymen, divided into four teams of 2000 each.

Yu Jin was the first team and joined forces with Cheng Yu to garrison Zhangjiawu Fort.

Zhang Hegaolan is the second team, stationed in Anguo.

Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were the third team, stationed in Wuji County.

The last team was led by Guo Jia himself, stationed in Lunu City, and commanded by Xu Shu.

In addition, Guo Jia mobilized a hundred elites among the ten thousand soldiers of the county to serve as his own soldiers, known as the Tiger Guards.Dian Wei and Xu Chu naturally became the commanders of this army.

The army has been assigned, and the next step is to build armor and train the army.

Yu Jin, Zhang He, and Xu Huang are all rare good generals, and Xi Zhong, Xu Shu, and Cheng Yu are also talents in their own right. Guo Jia also trusts them to leave everything to them, so he feels at ease.

After everything settled down, Xu Chu bid farewell to Guo Jia, and prepared to return to his hometown to recruit relatives to come to Zhongshan for refuge.

Guo Jia suddenly remembered Cai Yan's agreement, calculated that the Yellow Turban Uprising was still some days away, and immediately decided to go south with Xu Chu, recruiting the Xu clan, and taking Cai Meimei and his father back by the way.

Of course, this decision was once again rejected by all the staff.

First, as a feudal official, he could not leave the territory unless summoned by the court. Second, the situation in Zhongshan had just stabilized, so it was very inappropriate for Guo Jia to leave now.

Besides, to pick up Cai's father and daughter, only Xu Chu is enough, and Guo Jia's going here is undoubtedly superfluous.

Faced with the objections of the crowd, Guo Jia naturally ignored them. On a dark and stormy night, this fellow secretly left Zhongshan with Diao Chan, Zhen Jiang Dian, Wei Xu Chu and a hundred elites.

When everyone found out, it was too late to catch up, so they had to complain that the prefect was unreliable.

But the complaints belonged to the complaints, and everyone was busy with their own work, and they all threw themselves into the work in full swing.

Guo Jia can be lazy, but they can't.

(End of this chapter)