Zhuge was reborn, killed the old thief Sima

Chapter 721 Mi Fang’s trade trap and Zhuge Liang’s long-term plan
In the spring of the ninth year of Zhangwu, Pang Tong once again sent out surprise troops to capture Xi'anping in Liaodong County amid the flying snow, and officially isolated Lelang and Daifang County from Liaodong County.

Now that Gongsun Gong, who was stationed at the front, got the news, he also understood that if he no longer wanted to find a way, he would take action against them when Pang Tong came to his senses.

Therefore, he immediately joined forces with Mao Ji, the governor of Lelang, to attack Pang Tong.

But under the heavy snow, the road was already difficult, and Pang Tong had already made preparations. After they finally arrived in Xi'anping, they encountered an ambush by Pang Tong.

Mao Ji's son Mao Ji was killed on the spot by Zhuge Dan's men, and Gongsun Gong was defeated and fled back to the place where he led the army in embarrassment.

Pang Tong took this opportunity to rush directly into Lelang County, continuously captured a lot of land, and completely blocked the road!

At the same time, King Mayu of Fuyu Kingdom was persuaded by Mi Fang to unite with Xianbei to plunder Changli and Xuantu counties. The newly appointed Liaodong Governor Xian Yufu also immediately contacted Yan Rou and Wang Xiong, Meng Da (Wei Guo Mengda) and others to carry out the attack. Fight back.

The two sides fought repeatedly in the wind and snow, and finally gave up because the wind and snow were too big to continue.

But this more than a month of fighting finally led to Pang Tong gaining a firm foothold in Liaodong County and Lelang County.

At the same time, Mi Fang also asked Mi Fang to take advantage of this war to send the first batch of supplies to Pang Tong, including a large number of Han army's new armor and weapons and a lot of dry food.
Pang Tong, who had received sufficient supplies, could finally show off his skills. On the one hand, he was stabilizing his situation, and on the other hand, he directly used these things as bait to lure the Goguryeo people down.

Let them take the initiative to rob him, and then kill most of them in an ambush, while the others were stripped of all their armor and weapons and sent to the big ship.

Let Zhou Buyi and Deng Yang lead them towards Jiangdong
As for the dead bodies, Pang Tong did not waste them. Taking advantage of the extremely cold weather, he directly piled up the bodies and then covered them with ice and soil to create a frozen Jingguan.

It really shocked Goguryeo's soldiers and horses, so that they did not dare to go deeper and embarrass Pang Tong for a short time.

After all this was resolved, Pang Tong began the official battle for Liaodong.

Deng Yang and Zhou Buyi also started their mission.

"The armor and weapons were sent to Jiangdong, and the slave population was sent to Cao Ren. In exchange for grain, salt, and cloth, they were sent to Liaodong."

This trade route can ensure Pang Tong's logistical supplies in the past two years, and also allow Pang Tong to quickly establish a foothold in Liaodong.

At the same time, under the guidance of Deng Yang and Zhou Buyi on this trade route, they even began to corrupt the Qingxu officials along the way.

Without Zang Ba, although Wang Xiang was able to control Qing Xu's situation, it also caused great turmoil in Qing Xu's power. In this case, Deng Yang spent a lot of money and silk to clear the way.

Coupled with the spies in Zhou Buyi's hands, I don't know how many people were allowed to board their pirate ship.

Trade their safety for enough benefits.

The trade route of Mifang was expanded and perfected, and Zhou Buyi's expression became more and more strange when he saw the trade route map in Deng Yang's hand.

“Beyond the Great Wall to Liaodong, Buyeo, and Goguryeo is understandable.

Why are you so persistent in extending this trade route to the Central Plains and Hebei, and even to Jiangdong? Does General Mi Fang have such a big appetite? "

As the number one spy of the Han Dynasty, Zhou Buyi already had enough experience after so many years of training. After he saw this completed trade route map, he finally discovered something that he had never discovered before.

"Starting from outside the Great Wall, exchanging cattle, sheep, and horses for grain, cloth, salt, and tea seems to be giving away a lot of profits, but there can be a steady stream of merchants traveling on this road.

At the same time, by using these merchants, you can get your hands deep into many wealthy families.
But why? "

Zhou Bujie kept rubbing his chin, feeling that he was only one step away from the truth, but there still seemed to be something he couldn't figure out.Until Deng Yang said something leisurely.

"The Prime Minister once said that the Cao family has no virtue!"

"Huh?" Zhou Buyi was stunned by these words and couldn't react for a moment, "The Cao family is immoral. This Cao family is naturally an immoral person.

Starting from Cao Mengde, not to mention massacring the city and harming the people, digging graves, and other unethical things he did in the past.

But what then? "

"Cao Mengde has no virtue. Although he did not ultimately usurp the Han Dynasty, he actually usurped the Han Dynasty. Then Cao Pi is also without virtue."

"That's true!" Zhou Bujie looked at Deng Yang and felt that something was wrong with this matter. "Cao Pi is narrow-minded and usurps the Han to be self-reliant, but he has no virtue at all."

"Don't you understand that the superiors and subordinates have the same effect?" Deng Yang suddenly chuckled, "Two generations of the Cao family have passed, and now they are not virtuous and do anything tyrannical.

Those people under the Cao family will always have some ideas."

"Hmm" At this moment, Zhou Buyi finally realized. He thought of the business where Mi Fang started his business, reselling armor, weapons, war horses and other things.

As a manly spy, he is not qualified to judge others based on his moral character.

Therefore, he didn't react immediately, but Deng Yang had already mentioned it to this point. If he didn't know what happened next, he would be a little sorry for following Zhuge Liang for so long.

"Nowadays, the Cao family has no virtue, but you are using the trade routes in your hands to continue to go to the Central Plains of Hebei and even the current Jiangdong to fill up a large number of weapons and armor, allowing them to gather their own private military forces.

And if the Cao family wanted to suppress them, they had to rely on their clan generals between the Cao family and the Xiahou family again.

The prime minister has been devoting himself to strangling Cao's generals all these years, starting with Xia Houyuan and Cao Hong and Cao Zhen back then.

In recent years, Cao Zhang, Xia Houshang, Xia Houru and many other generals of the Cao family have been wiped out.

There are not many people available to the Cao family. The ninth-level Zhongzheng method under the Cao family and your business routes have made those people stronger and stronger.

Once the situation becomes overwhelming, the Cao family will be very close to civil strife."

Of course, these words are not nonsense, but the Cao family is indeed trapped in this kind of death spiral, and the private armies of the wealthy families have begun to grow slowly.

Cao Wei also relied more on the clan generals of the Cao and Xiahou families, and even had to let them command the troops, even if their talents were not really that good.

They must not replace generals with foreign surnames, because deep down they dare not let these people really take power.
It is precisely because of this that people like Cao Ren, Cao Zhen, and Cao Xiu became the helpers of the Cao family. However, no matter how powerful a family is, they cannot compete with half of the world.
When Zhou Bujie figured out these things, the look on his face became even weirder.

"From the trade route to the revival of aristocratic families, now Cao family members have gathered private soldiers, each with their own selfish motives.
After all these years, does General Mi Fang really have this ability?
Could it be that he got to this point by accident? "

"Yeah." Deng Yang touched his chin, and then said lightly to Zhou Buji.

"Everyone in the world knows that the one whom the Prime Minister despises the most is General Mi Fang, but..."

"Brother Yuanzhi thinks that with the Prime Minister's ability, if he really wanted to kill General Mi Fang, would he survive until now?"

(End of this chapter)