I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 509, Resurrection of War

At the beginning of February of the second year of Jian'an (AD 197)!
Qingzhou, Beihai County, State Shepherd's Mansion!

"This is really a man who wants to die! Why does God keep helping Lei Gong!" Cao Cao shouted angrily!

The crisis of trust in banknotes still affects the entire Qingxu and Xuzhou. Cao Cao knows that Qingxu's financial expenditures are all supported by banknotes, and the banknotes cannot be allowed to collapse!

In order to maintain the credit of banknotes, Cao Cao sold all the grain, cloth, gold and silver, salt, and even struvite, salt and other materials in his treasury to the people who exchanged banknotes. Even when the money was insufficient, Cao Cao half threatened , semi-forcibly borrowed millions of shi of grain and hundreds of millions of money from the powerful families of Qingzhou and Xuzhou, and at the same time sold a large amount of state-owned land in Qingzhou.It can be said that Cao Cao exhausted all means to finally maintain the credibility of the banknotes in Qingzhou, and did not let Qingzhou's economy collapse!

Cao Cao is confident that he has done a good enough job. He thinks that Lei Gong must be hit hard at this time. Hebei has issued banknotes for several years longer than them, and the number must be ten times more than theirs. More than all of them!
In the next few months, Lei Gong kept his troops on hold, and Dagan did not launch an attack on Yuzhou until the winter. This made Cao Cao believe that Hebei was hit harder than he thought, otherwise it would be impossible to let go. Good chance not to attack Yuzhou!
As a result, Man Chong brought him bad news at this time. Treasure Island was discovered in the land of Hebei. Now Lei Gong has quelled the disturbance of paper money. Go to the island to dig for gold and silver!

And this news is a bolt from the blue to Cao Cao, gold and silver are nothing to a hero like Cao Cao, but the harassment in Hebei has been calmed down, Lei Gong's next move must be to attack Yuzhou and Sili, and may even attack them Land of Qingxu, and in order to maintain the reputation of paper money in Land of Qingxu, he has exchanged the grain in his warehouse for the paper money in the hands of the people. Now Land of Qingxu has only the power to defend, but not to attack.

He can only stand up to resist Hebei's attack on Qingxu, but if Lei Gong attacks Yuzhou and Sili, Cao Cao doesn't even have enough food and grass to support the army's expedition!
Cao Cao's roar completely frightened the civil and military ministers around him, and no one in the army knew what happened!One by one looked full of pets!

Man Chong can only tell everyone about the discovery of Treasure Island in these places in Hebei!

These people like Xun Yu also want to look up to the sky and sigh like Cao Cao. Could it be that Lei Gong really has a destiny? It is obviously a catastrophe, but Lei Gong has not done much. God sent a treasure island to help Lei Gong quell the riots !But they are miserable for the big Han. The three major princes of the big Han now have soldiers and no food, and they can't do it if they want to send troops together.

"Where is this Treasure Island? How much gold and silver can actually quell the banknote turmoil in Hebei? According to my estimate, the banknotes issued in the whole of Hebei exceed [-] billion yuan. Even if Hebei takes out all its food reserves, it will be difficult to quell it!" Guo Jia asked.

This kind of thing is the most irritating, obviously they have done everything that can be done, but their enemies open a plug-in to easily solve the problem that they have spent a lot of effort to solve!
Man Chong said helplessly: "It is said that there are overseas islands not far from Lelang County. These islands are very large. It is said that there are more than our Qingxu two places combined. When Damo was still in power, the population of Xianbei was increasing. The increase in agriculture, animal husbandry and hunting could not satisfy the Xianbei people's survival, so Tan Shihuai inspected it himself. He saw that the Wuji Qinshui was hundreds of miles wide, the water did not flow, and there were fish in the water, but the Xianbei people had no way to get fish Later, Tan Shihuai heard that the Wa people were good at fishing with nets, so he went east to the island of the Wa people on a simple raft, captured more than a thousand Wa people, moved them to live by the Qin River, and asked them to fish , to make up for the food shortage.”

Then Man Chong walked to a map showing the entire Han Dynasty, pointed to the northeast corner of the map and said, "This is where Wa Island is!"

"As for the amount of gold and silver, it is not clear yet, but it is said that Xi Zhong, an official in Hebei, brought 10 boats of salt in exchange for 5 boats of gold and silver. When he returned, the gold and silver piled up like a mountain. Xizhong distributed gold and silver to the people of Quan County on the spot, and it is said that everyone got a horseshoe gold!

Now the whole of Hebei is spreading rumors about how much money they made, some say one billion, some say tens of billions, and some even say hundreds of billions, but no one knows exactly how much they made, only this trip After buying and selling, the people of Quan County in Youzhou have become rich. With this kind of Treasure Island in their hands, everyone is not worried. Lei Gong can no longer exchange banknotes! "

Cao Cao was shocked when he heard Man Chong's words, and distributed gold and silver to the people of the whole county. This kind of thing has never been heard in history. How much gold and silver did Lei Gong get?No wonder the people in Hebei don't worry about the creditworthiness of banknotes anymore. If he has so much gold and silver, the people in Qingxu don't have to worry about the creditworthiness of banknotes either!

"Brother Zhicai!"

Guo Jia was also taken aback. After the two of them separated in Youzhou, it was the first time he had heard about Xi Zhong in the past few years. Guo Jia is a little envious of his handsome distribution of gold and silver now. He envies that Xi Zhong can only do what he likes to do, instead of worrying about Qing Xu's survival like him!
Cheng Yu looked at the map and said: "It looks like Dongnae County is not very far from this Wa Island. Can we also log in to this Treasure Island? The gold and silver on the island can solve the problem of the credibility of our banknotes. You can't just let Lei Gong monopolize it!"

But Xun Yu smiled wryly and said: "Although it seems that we are at the same distance from Lei Gong, our navy is no match for Lei Gong's navy! Lei Gong's largest warship is tens of thousands of stones in size and can carry dozens of naval guns. There is no such battleship!"

Cao Cao's artillery was small in number, and the cities of Qingxu and Xuzhou were not enough to allocate. Only important cities had artillery defenses. Naturally, it was impossible for him to install such important weapons on ships.

"Lei Gong attaches great importance to the construction of naval forces. When he was still in Mayi, there was only one Sanggan River in the territory. He has gradually built a fleet of naval forces. After occupying Youzhou, he has built ten seas along the coast of Youzhou. Several wharves connect the entire territory of Youzhou by sea, not to mention the formation of tens of thousands of sailors, and use the ocean as a source of food to manufacture tens of thousands of cement boats to catch sea fish. Now the production of sea fish is huge every year More than 5000 million shi, the cheapest meat in Hebei is fish, which is only 5 times more expensive than food! If our fishing boats dare to enter the waters of Hebei, they will definitely be sunk by thunder gods! It is impossible to travel thousands of miles to some Japanese island!"

There is another point that Xun Yu didn't say, the strength of Lei Gong's navy is enough to sink all the fishing boats in Qingxu land, trap them on the shore, make it difficult for them to catch sea fish and dig guano stones, but I don't understand why Lei Gong didn't do this !

After Cao Cao heard Xun Yu's face darken, he asked after a long time: "Lei Gong has solved the internal trouble, and he will definitely attack us again. How should we deal with it?"

Xun Yu, Xun You, Cheng Yu and the others looked at each other, they were out of food and grass, they really wanted to kill the enemy now, they were powerless!

It was Guo Jia who saw Man Chong and asked, "Is there any transfer of materials and troops in Hebei?"

Man Chong said: "The strength of the troops has not changed much, but during this period of time, the transportation of food, grass and materials to Yanzhou and other places has been accelerated. At this time, the turmoil in Yuzhou has not subsided, and even the yellow turban bandits who have not appeared for many years The reappearance of Yuzhou, it is obvious that Lei Gong is not willing to let go of this good opportunity!"

Cao Cao was dejected when he heard the news: "It's over, Sili and Yuzhou are completely over, Yuan Tan doesn't even have a tenth of the ability of Brother Benchu, we will be killed by him!"

If Sili and Yuzhou were also captured by Lei Gong, Cao Cao would know without even thinking that he would be Lei Gong's next target!
A clever woman can't cook without rice. Faced with such a situation, everyone has found a good way. I can only hope that Yuan Tan can resist for a while longer.

Guo Jia even said: "Now I can only hope that Liu Bei still has the ability to support Yuan Tan!"

And Cao Cao and the others really didn't expect it wrong!The civil strife has subsided, and now it's time for Dagan to reap the fruits!
At the beginning of April in the second year of Jian'an (197 AD)!
As soon as the spring plowing was over, the main generals of Dagan began to mobilize their troops to attack in the direction of Sili and Yuzhou. Hundreds of thousands of troops attacked in an all-round way. The war in the Central Plains, which had been quiet for more than a year, ignited again!
Henan Yin, Zhongmoucheng, Yang Feng, the general who conquered the west, called a meeting of the generals.

Li Le, who joined the army, explained the attack strategy in detail
"This time, our army will firstly capture Yingchuan County and completely cut off Yuzhou's support for Luoyang City. Second, we will attack Xingyang, Aocang and other defensive cities on the front line of Luoyang City, laying the foundation for the early capture of Luoyang City."

Xu Huangchi questioned: "Didn't General Huang Long lead an army of 10 to attack Yuzhou? Why did we split up to attack Yingchuan County? You must know that Luoyang City is in front of us. Even with an army of 10, it is difficult to attack Luoyang." city!
Yan Liang said with a smile: "Gongming, you want to take the lead in conquering Luoyang City, but you don't even care about conquering Yingchuan County!"

Xu Huang said with a smile: "Luoyang City has been the capital of the Han Dynasty for 200 years, who can attack Luoyang City, who would appreciate the credit of Shangyingchuan County!"

Yang Feng said: "Although Brother Huanglong has an army of 10 in his hands, he not only has to face Yuan Tan's army of hundreds of thousands, but also guards against Cao Cao between Qing and Xu. It is difficult to face such an army with the army in the hands of Brother Huanglong alone. There are many enemies, but the attack on Sili is not limited to our route. Xiliang Zhang Baiqi has prepared 10 troops, and Bingzhou has also prepared 10 troops to attack Hedong County and Taiyuan County in two ways. , the army attacking Luoyang City has already exceeded 25, relatively speaking, the direction of Yuzhou needs more troops! So we have to divide an army of 5 to attack Yingchuan County, and support Brother Huanglong to attack Yuzhou!"

Hu Cai excitedly said: "The commander-in-chief intends to join forces with the commander-in-chief Huang Long to annex Yuan Tan's power completely?"

The combat goal formulated by Daqian this time is to annex Sili and severely damage Yuan Tan's army in Yuzhou. Of course, he can annex Yuzhou if he has the opportunity, but Xu Wei does not force it. After all, Yuan Tan has more than 20 troops in his power and forcibly annexed Xu Wei I was also worried about making raw rice.

But obviously Huang Long and Yang Feng didn't want to watch Yuan Tan stay in Yuzhou any longer. They concentrated most of the main force to attack Yuzhou, and only sent 5 troops to attack Luoyang City!
Yang Feng said with a smile: "Brother Huanglong has led the army to go south secretly to Dingtao and Changyi. Duan Yun's cavalry has also arrived at the border of Yuzhou, and is ready to launch an attack on Yuzhou at any time. We, Sili, will not fight with the Xiliang army The Bingzhou Army is competing for credit, but we have to swallow all of Yuzhou!
Yanzhou, Dingtao City!

Huanglong took his personal guards to patrol the fields in the outskirts of Dingtao!
But the farmers in the fields are all frowning. After the end of winter this year, there has been no rain for dozens of days, which has cast a shadow over the hearts of the people in Yanzhou. In such a climate where there is no rain for dozens of days, it is very likely that Yanzhou will suffer another drought this year. They have just divided the land, but they did not expect that the good life has only passed a year, and God still refuses to let them go !Now these people are carrying water to their own fields, trying to find ways to reduce the drought in the fields!
Seeing this scene, Huang Long looked helpless and said: "Report what happened in Yanzhou to the ruling party, and see what the ruling party can do?"

Guan Hai next to him said: "Commander, judging from the situation in the past two years, Yanzhou is about to suffer a thousand miles away. It is a good thing for Yanzhou to launch a war now. Instead of spending their energy in the fields, the people of Yanzhou It’s better to become a peasant to earn food, anyway, we have prepared 5 million shi of food for this war, and it’s not a problem to feed the people of Yanzhou!”

But Huanglong said worriedly: "It's okay if only Yanzhou suffers from the drought. What I'm worried about is that the expansion of this drought will affect the land in Hebei, where grain production will be greatly reduced. It will take several years of recuperation to be in power. This will affect our efforts to unify the world. process!"

Fuyun said: "The commander-in-chief can think of a better place. If the drought continues to expand, maybe Cao Cao in Qingzhou and Liu Bei in Jiangnan will also be affected. By then, their grain production will be reduced, and it will be even more impossible to support Yuan Tan. Yuan Tan, who is alone and helpless, is even more no match for us! When our army of hundreds of thousands attacks Yuzhou, Yuan Tan will definitely not be able to hold it!"

Huang Long said: "Cao Cao is also a problem. Although the Jizhou army will hold back Cao Cao's army, we can't ignore him!"

Guan Hai said: "Leave [-] cavalry in Changyi. When we attack Yuzhou, these cavalry will enter Xuzhou. Then Cao Cao will be afraid. The banknote crisis will also affect Cao Cao's territory. If the morale of the Qingzhou army Nothing, maybe we can capture the entire Xuzhou, and then Cao Cao will be completely surrounded by us!"

Huang Long said with a smile: "Your hearts are really bigger than each other. You only want to capture Sili when you are in power, but we want to destroy Yuan Tan's strength, but you want to capture the three states of Dahan at once, so you are not afraid of our indigestion!"

Fuyun said: "If you have indigestion, digest it slowly! There is no chance that we will put Xuzhou there and not capture it. To be honest, Xuzhou is actually the easiest territory to capture, and Cao Cao is completely surrounded by us after conquering Xuzhou." Now, once he sees that he is so dangerous, he might surrender without a fight!"

(End of this chapter)