Abnormal Three Kingdoms

Chapter 68
When Liu Bei led Yuzhou Mu to gather troops to attack Xiaopei, Chu Nan was still on his way back to Xiapi from Ganyu. When Chu Nan returned to Xiapi, Liu Bei had already withdrawn his troops and returned to Xuchang. Therefore, Lu Bu It was not mentioned with Chu Nan.

After Chu Nan came back, he was busy with getting married.

Getting married first and then talking about love is the habit of most people in this era, but Chu Nan is somewhat regretful. In his previous life, first love was painful, and the first love ended without a problem. He only wanted to make money, and he experienced many women. It's hard to get back the feeling of first love, and if I live again in this life, there seems to be no chance of falling in love.

In fact, even without Lu Lingqi, there is a high probability that it will be difficult for him to taste that tossing and going back and forth mentality. Although a person returns to youth, his mentality cannot be restored. The desire and impulse for the opposite sex when he was ignorant, no matter how difficult it is now. There is.

This seems to be good too!
Xiapi, Chen family.

Chen Deng, who had been away for a long time, came back. As soon as he came back, he saw his brother with a sad face, and asked in surprise, "Why is Yuanyou so frowning?"

"Then Chu Ziyan is going to get married tomorrow." Chen Ying said with a sigh.

Chen Deng: "...?"

What is the meaning of this nonsense?
"Yuanyou also wants to marry Lu Bu's daughter?" Chen Deng guessed.

"Of course not." Chen Ying recounted what had happened during this period. Lu Bu meant to break away from control, and the Mi family seemed to have voted for Lu Bu. Yesterday Lu Bu ordered that all the coastal areas should be under the jurisdiction of the government office.

Those lands couldn't be planted, and naturally they lost their ownership. Now that Lu Bu opened his mouth and took all the coastal lands back to the government office, Chen Ying realized with belatedness that Lu Bu wanted to hold all the sea salt in his hands, although he didn't know The method of making salt in the South, but even according to the previous method of making salt, the brine must be made by the sea.

It's just that the land by the sea has never been clearly owned, and whoever occupies it will own it. Now Lu Bu has ordered that all the coastal land be directly placed under the jurisdiction of Jincao, which is tantamount to directly cutting off the way for the wealthy families to obtain salt. This Xuzhou salt It was like falling into Lu Bu's hands all of a sudden.

If Lu Bu directly ordered it before, then the aristocratic families would naturally join hands to cut off the Xuzhou salt business, and see who can survive.

But now that the method of making salt has been developed in southern Chu, salt farms have been opened one after another in various places. It is the cooperation of Xuzhou aristocratic and powerful families, and the salt industry has been completely taken over by Lu Bu.

"How is Yuanyou going to respond?" Chen Deng asked with a smile after taking a sip of the tea soup brought by his servant.

"Although Lv Bu got the salt, what would happen if the price of grain in the territory went up?" Chen Ying had obviously thought about it. No matter what he did, Lu Bu was still manipulated by him.

"Chu Nan does have some tricks." Chen Deng sighed and said, "He must have known that Yuan You would do this."

"What do you mean, brother?" Chen Ying raised his head in amazement and looked at Chen Deng.

"Earlier, there was a transaction in Xiapi. Chen Gong exchanged a lot of salt with Yuan Shu for a lot of grain and grass. At that time, I wondered why Lu Bu got so much salt." Chen Deng said with a smile.

"A Ganyu, how come there is so much salt?" Chen Ying frowned, and instantly understood why Chen Deng said that, as long as he dared to raise the price of grain, Chu Nan would definitely use these grains to stabilize the market. Yuan Shu is not the only one who can trade more salt. That is to say, they will not be short of food in a short period of time. In this way, driving up food prices will not only harm Lu Bu, but if it is done properly, it will increase his reputation.

In contrast, those aristocratic families who drive up food prices will lose their reputation!
"Then I'll inform the others right now." Chen Ying got up quickly, this matter had to be done quickly.

"No need." Chen Deng shook his head: "My Chen family doesn't need to intervene. In this matter, our Chen family will not help."

"Why?" Chen Ying asked puzzled.

"Firstly, let's see how much salt he has, and secondly..." Chen Ying took a sip of the tea soup and said with a smile: "The families may lose some of their reputation, but the conflict between Lu Bu and the gentry will become more acute. We already intend to attack Xuzhou, but something happened in Nanyang."

Chen Ying realized that in this way, when Cao Cao came to attack, those families would be more firmly on Cao Cao's side.

"Brother is smart." Chen Ying said with a smile.

"Where's father?" Chen Deng asked.

"I went back to the old house to recuperate. My father is not feeling well recently." Chen Ying said.

"Tomorrow is the day of Chu Nan's big wedding, Yuan You is going to prepare a congratulatory gift." Chen Deng laughed.

"Then Chu Nan was born as a merchant, what qualifications does he have?" Chen Ying refused.

Chen Deng said helplessly: "Since he has come to this point, he is already qualified to wrestle with us. If you look down on him, you are looking down on yourself. Don't be blinded by your background."

"Follow your brother's instruction."

"No need to do that, let's do it, you and I will go together tomorrow." Chen Deng nodded, and began to talk to Chen Ying about other things. The next step is for the Chen family to make plans for themselves.

On the other side, Chu Nan, who was preparing for tomorrow's wedding, was called to the General's Mansion by Lu Bu.

They are going to get married tomorrow, what can't be discussed later?

Chu Nan was a little puzzled, but he still came.

In the general's mansion, he didn't go to the main hall, but was led to the study room. Chu Nan was surprised to see that Chen Gong was there, and when he saw Chu Nan, he nodded slightly.

Chu Nan bowed to Chen Gong, and knelt down: "Mr. Gongtai came back, but something serious happened?"

Chen Gong has been working in Xiaopei to prepare for the war. This time, he exchanged food with Yuan Shu. Xiaopei is the front line bordering Cao Cao. If there is nothing important, Chen Gong should not come back. Chu Nan does not think that his marriage will make Chen Gong Let go of things and come back, the relationship is not here, and the status is not here.

"Firstly, it's to celebrate Ziyan's marriage." Chen Gong said with a smile.

Just say two.

Chu Nan nodded and thanked him. This is usually a polite gesture, but the real key is two.

"A few days ago, Liu Bei led Yuzhou Mu, stationed troops in the Dangshan area, recruited the old troops, and suddenly withdrew the army the day before yesterday, and then the imperial court sent the Fengjun Duwei Wang to come to make peace, and reward Wenhou as an official." Chen Gong Looking at Chu Nan: "What do you think of Ziyan?"

How to look?
Chu Nan recalled it carefully, frowned and said: "According to what you said, Liu Bei must be preparing to mobilize troops when he comes here to station troops. Without Cao Cao's consent, Liu Bei lives in Xuchang, how could he transfer troops without permission? Now that he has withdrawn, he will send someone to join him." The official award, presumably because there are other things that have to postpone the attack."

A flash of admiration flashed in Chen Gong's eyes, he nodded and said, "I have some old friends in Xuchang who secretly sent a letter to me. Zhang Xiu's connection with Liu Biao has the intention of breaking the law."

Zhang Xiu...

Chu Nan was stunned, but he couldn't help but think of Zhang Xiu's aunt, and he didn't know what it looked like.

When the two were talking, Lu Bu came back from the main hall and saw Chu Nan coming, nodded to him, and knelt down: "The imperial court has appointed General Pingdong."

There was a somewhat smug look on his face.

"What else?" Chu Nan waited for a while, and seeing that Lu Bu stopped talking, he couldn't help asking.

"What else?" Lu Bu looked at Chu Nan in confusion.

"Only this?" Chu Nan asked suspiciously.

Lu Bu nodded.

"..."

(End of this chapter)