Shu Han Confucian General of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 37
"Zilong?" On this day Liu Bei sent someone to tell Zhao Feng to discuss something important, just as he walked out of his house, he unexpectedly discovered that it was Zhao Yun who came out of the opposite house.

"It's been a long time since Bo Tao! It's been almost a month since Yun came to Xuzhou, but we just met today. I didn't expect Bo Tao to live so close." Zhao Yun was also a little surprised to see Zhao Feng, and stepped forward to greet him repeatedly.It's really funny to say that Zhao Feng has been back to Xuzhou for a few days, but because he was busy with Sun Qian and the others preparing to build Xuzhou College these days, he noticed that his new neighbor was Zhao Yun.

The two went together to meet Liu Bei, and after some conversation on the way, Zhao Feng found out that Zhao Yun remembered Zhao Feng's reminder at that time, and had long been mentally prepared for Gongsun Zan's defeat.Therefore, when the latter committed suicide, Zhao Yun was able to lead the remaining [-] cavalry to break out of the siege, and then fled to Xuzhou via Qingzhou to join Liu Bei.

"It turns out that if Zilong survives a catastrophe, he must have future blessings." Zhao Feng complimented, but his heart was brimming with joy: four thousand cavalry, Xuzhou originally had only a few thousand cavalry in Tao Qian's era, plus the former confiscation With Lu Bu's Bingzhou wolf cavalry and Zhao Yun's [-] cavalry, Xuzhou can finally gather more than [-] cavalry.

When the two arrived at the Xuzhou Shepherd's Mansion, Zhao Feng realized that many people had arrived.Even Chen Deng, who lived in seclusion in recent years and recuperated from his illness, and Zhao Yu, a cheap elder brother who lives far away in the East China Sea, also came. Most likely there was something important.

Sure enough, Lao Liu saw that Zhao Feng had also come, so he explained the whole story to everyone: "Recently, many spies have reported that Yuan Shao from Jizhou and Cao Cao from Yanzhou are buying food, recruiting soldiers, and building weapons. It looks like something big is going to happen. What do you guys think of me, Xuzhou?"

All of a sudden, one stone really stirred up a thousand waves, but it was not over yet. Zhao Yu, who came specially from the East China Sea, also said at this time: "My lord, it's not just that, the Zhen family from Hebei and the Wei family from Yanzhou have all come to my East China Sea recently." The purchase of table salt, and the amount is astonishing, it seems that it should be needed by the army."

The mountains and rain are about to come, and the wind is all over the building!Zhao Feng sighed in his heart, but he saw the sickly Chen Deng slowly saying: "My lord, the summer grain has just been harvested. I think Cao Cao and Yuan Shao are going to fight after the recruits are trained. It's just that they will fight on their own, or will they fight in front of the soldiers?" For Xuzhou or Yuzhou, it is not yet clear. Although Xuzhou has regained its vitality, it can still deal with Yuan Shu in Huainan, but it will inevitably be incapable of dealing with Cao Cao and Yuan Shao. Therefore, if they invade with troops, we should focus on defense; If they fight on their own, then we will take the opportunity to deal with Yuan Shu."

"That's the only way to go." After thinking about it, Liu Bei realized that what Chen Deng said was true. His current strength was really not enough to fight with the two big men, Yuan Shao and Cao Cao. At best, he could only bully Yuan Shu.Zhao Feng also recently learned that Yuan Shu had begun conscription on a large scale in Huainan, and it seemed that in a few months at most, this old man would come out as a leader.

But waiting for the opponent to make a move is not Zhao Feng's style, especially when facing such giants as Cao Cao and Yuan Shao, Zhao Feng will never let go of any opportunity to weaken their strength. "My lord, since the Zhen family and the Wei family have come to Xuzhou to buy salt and grain, we can take this opportunity to get some war horses from them!" Zhao Feng remonstrated.

"Huh?" Liu Bei was also moved when he heard this: Xuzhou and Yuzhou did not produce horses, and now the infantry has been drilled by Zhao Feng, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Chen Dao, and their combat effectiveness is already considerable.But no matter how strong the infantry is, it can only be used for siege or defense. The real field combat of cold weapons still depends on cavalry.But if you want to get horses, you can only get them from the north or Xiliang.It is unrealistic that Xiliang is too far apart, so we can only start from the north.Since Cao Cao and Yuan Shao were in urgent need of salt, they took advantage of the fire to get some horses.

According to Zhao Feng's thinking, Xuzhou and Yuzhou have a combined population of nearly 500 million. Excluding the local garrison, there should be 20 infantry and [-] cavalry.Think about it, there are [-] cavalry in Jingzhou, and the [-] cavalry in Xuzhou is a bit shabby, let alone Yuzhou only has thousands of cavalry.

"Zi Zhong, I'll leave this matter to you, go talk to the Zhen family and the Wei family!" Liu Bei finally made a decision.After coming to this world for more than six years, Zhao Feng also has some basic knowledge.The so-called four major merchants are the Zhen family in Jizhou, the Mi family in Xuzhou, the Qin family in Yizhou, and the Wei family in Yanzhou.Among them, Wei Hong, the head of the Wei family, once sponsored Cao Cao's army, and now he is even more happy to cooperate with Cao Cao; the Mi family and the Zhen family embraced the thighs of Liu Bei and Yuan Shao respectively; Liu Zhang, Yizhou Mu, will give them three points.

"Mi Zhu understands!" Mi Zhu said confidently, but at this moment Chen Deng coughed more and more, and finally spat out a mouthful of blood with a "wow".

"How is Yuanlong?" Everyone didn't care whether it was suitable or not, they hurried forward to help him lie down on the hall, and then hurriedly sent the doctor to come over to check.

"It's useless. Deng's illnesses have become more and more frequent this year, and he has searched for famous doctors in many ways but to no avail. It's probably because his life is approaching!" Chen Deng said sadly.Hearing this, Zhao Feng suddenly had a flash of inspiration in his mind, and quickly asked, "I wonder if Yuan Long has heard of the two great doctors of today?"

Chen Deng was taken aback for a moment, and then asked, "Which two great doctors are they?"

"One is Hua Tuo of Qiao County. This man is known as the reincarnation of Bian Que because of his medical skills. It is said that it is easy to perform surgery on people. However, he likes to travel around the rivers and lakes to practice medicine in his life, so his whereabouts are erratic. The other is Zhang Zhongjing, the prefect of Changsha. This man On the first and fifteenth day of the lunar new year, he treats the common people's illnesses in the government office, and he doesn't receive any money. He is known as the prefect, and it is said that he can even cure typhoid fever." Zhao Feng introduced with a little exaggeration.

Disembowelment and typhoid fever are simply unimaginable for people of this era, and everyone was a little dazed for a while.After a while, Liu Bei was the first to come back to his senses and said, "Changsha is too far away. I don't know where this Hua Tuo is now. You should find him as soon as possible and invite him to Xuzhou to treat Yuanlong." So he ordered more people to inquire about Hua Tuo's whereabouts. carry.

In the next few days, Zhao Feng was mainly busy preparing to build Xuzhou College with Sun Qian.The news of applying for the exam has been released to Xuzhou and Yuzhou, and the response is quite enthusiastic.It was originally planned to recruit 300 civil and military candidates, but the total number of applicants was nearly [-].The exam topics were also discussed by Zhao Feng, Sun Qian and others. Liberal arts exams focus on poetry, poetry, and arithmetic, to see how good your writing and calculation skills are; There are common training content such as long-distance running.The [-] candidates who were finally selected were equipped with student uniforms issued uniformly and became the first batch of students of Xuzhou University.

"They're all young people!" On the first day of freshmen's enrollment, Liu Bei also came to the scene in person. Looking at the energetic young people in uniforms, Old Liu seemed to be ten years younger.

"This was proposed by Bo Tao. Candidates should be no older than 25 and no younger than 15." Chen Qun replied.What Zhao Feng did was actually to build a team of relatively young grassroots cadres, but now he was busy recruiting recruits with Zhang Fei, the soldier Cao, and couldn't take care of this.

After being busy for more than a month, Zhao Feng finally breathed a sigh of relief as the construction of the academy and the recruitment of new recruits had begun to take shape.Meeting Mi Zhu that day, Zhao Feng was surprised to find that the richest businessman in Xuzhou had lost a lot of weight.

"Why is Brother Zizhong so haggard?" Zhao Feng wondered.Mi Zhu let out a long breath and sighed: "Bo Tao doesn't know something. Recently, the Zhen family and the Wei family and I have been busy with business matters. Neither of these two families is inferior to me in financial resources, so it is quite difficult. !"

Zhao Feng was also slightly moved, it was rare to see Mi Zhu being so serious, so he simply asked: "How is the situation now?"

"What else can I do? The Zhen family and the Wei family also have shops in Xuzhou, and they are buying grain and salt now. I offered to exchange salt with them for horses, but they are very demanding. The Zhen family only wants two hundred shi for grain." For a horse, the Wei family needs five hundred shi, and now I can only buy as much grain as possible." Mi Zhu said sadly.

"Damn, isn't this naked robbery?" Zhao Feng hated in his heart, and then he gave Mi Zhu an idea: "Brother Zizhong, if it doesn't work, let the lord order to close the shops of these guys in Xuzhou, or impose heavy taxes on them, and pay them compensation." Kill them, let them lose everything."

"It's really not possible, that's the only way to go!" Mi Zhu sighed.But Zhao Feng also knew that the prosperity of Xuzhou was inseparable from these two. Their shops and restaurants in Xuzhou were also blooming everywhere.If they are really shut down completely, although they can be done once and for all, it will hurt both sides.Therefore, it is best to use the government to come forward and focus on policy regulation.

"It's all about the money!" Zhao Feng said with emotion all the way home. War is actually a contest in many aspects, including economic strength.In the face of the absolute strength gap, any strategy is useless.From this point of view, in history, Zhuge Liang used Yizhou as a place to resist Cao Wei who almost occupied the entire Central Plains, and it is very rare to be able to maintain an invincible and undefeated situation.

But obviously Yuan Shu in Huainan, and even Yuan Shao in Hebei didn't understand this point. Although these two old brothers had a geographical advantage, they focused on the people and didn't care about the people's livelihood, which led to the final failure.Now Zhao Feng is looking forward to the stars and the moon, and he is looking forward to Yuan Laoer proclaiming himself emperor as soon as possible.However, Zhang Liao and Zang Ba of Guangling have been receiving news recently, reporting in time how far Yuan Shu has expanded his army. Now it is nearly 30, and it will probably be soon.

"Husband, I'm back early today!" Diao Chan asked while taking Zhao Feng off his armor and shirt.

"Yeah, I was very busy a while ago, and I finally got some free time recently." Zhao Feng responded casually, and suddenly he also came up on a whim, and said again: "Why don't we go shopping together, we haven't done shopping yet. Woolen cloth."

"Okay!" Diao Chan had nothing to do, so Zhao Feng found a scholar's robe and changed into it, and took Diao Chan to Xuzhou Street for a walk.In ancient times, there were no newspapers and television, even if you were a famous person, not many people could really recognize you face to face, so Zhao Feng dared to go out on the street with a little disguise.However, considering that Diao Chan's appearance is too outstanding, let a few servants follow her from a distance, so as to prevent someone who doesn't look forward to make trouble.

Xuzhou City has been governed by Chen Qun, Mi Zhu and others for the past two years, and has completely restored its former prosperity, even worse.At this time, however, the sun was setting and the shops and restaurants were still open.

"Xuzhou City is really prosperous, and it's not much better than Chang'an back then!" It is said that shopping is a woman's instinct, and this is also reflected in Diao Chan's skills.Excited, she looked left and right, and Zhao Feng was almost reduced to a follower.

"Ma'am, let me buy you some jewelry!" Seeing a jewelry store ahead, Zhao Feng greeted him instead of being passive. "Okay!" Diao Chan giggled, and the two entered the jewelry store together.

(End of this chapter)