When Chen Xi and his party came to Nanyang, they were surprised to find that Nanyang was already deserted. Although the intelligence department had reported it before, they still had different feelings when they came here to check it out. The largest county in the Central Plains, which had a population of over 2 million, is now basically full of grass. This feeling...

"Tsk tsk tsk tsk, it's a pity. To be honest, this place is really good. It's very good in terms of geographical location, environment, climate, and other aspects. It's basically in the core area of ​​the entire country." Chen Xi looked at the plain that had completely grown grass, and even stood on tiptoe, and could still see the deserted city from afar.

It was only one or two years since Nanyang evacuated its population, and its originally prosperous county suddenly became a deserted city. Even because of its lack of population, sparse weeds began to grow on the walls of Wancheng, which was originally claimed to have never fallen for a thousand years. It was estimated that it would become ruins in a few years.

"It's deserted." Jia Xu put his hand on his eyebrows and looked at the deserted city ahead. "There are too many people in Nanyang that have offended them. It's normal for everyone to end up like this, but if you think about it, it's really a bit cruel."

"To be honest, the situation in Nanyang now looks like a tragic phenomenon after the real civil war, without a rooster crowing thousands of miles away! Well, but there are no roadside corpses, and here at most it looks desolate." Chen Xi looked at the desolate land and said with a sneer. There are not even many people in the entire Nanyang County now.

"That's right, the Central Plains civil war is indeed like this. If another plague breaks out, it's probably the same as you said." Li You said silently after a while, "The war shouldn't happen at home, it's better to be external."

"I think so too." Chen Xi nodded, "Even if it is both internal and external, it will cause great damage to people's livelihood. However, relatively speaking, there are some beneficial things outside, and if it is internal, it is really nothing."

"Speaking of this, a large part of the reason for making Nanyang like this is your problem. Otherwise, even if several large-scale wars occurred in this place and a plague broke out again, it would not have been the case in this way." Jia Xu frowned and said, "The largest county in the Central Plains has become like this, and Jia Xu was also a little depressed.

"This place is really troublesome. There are too many problems with the Nanyang family. I don't want to educate them slowly, so I have this worst case, not to mention that this place happens to be in the heart of the Central Plains. After the transportation is repaired, it can be regarded as a intersection point, whether it is water or land. It is very suitable as a commercial center." Chen Xi did not deny this fact, and this matter is indeed related to him.

"But the commercial center does not require a whole county. As the commercial center, Taishan Fenggaocheng is not exaggerated to the point where it needs to be built to such a great extent." Li You frowned and said.

"It's different." Chen Xi chuckled and shook his head, "Fenggao is at most a trading point, a commercial distribution point, and cannot be regarded as a real commercial center."

"Well, it's not right. In fact, it can be counted only if it is forced." Chen Xi felt that what he said was wrong after a while, and changed his words. After so many years of development, Fenggao has not achieved the crazy growth that Chen Xi thought because of the existence of many constraints, but what he wants to say can barely reach the so-called commercial center.

Of course, in the eyes of others, Feng Gao has grown wildly at the grass level.

"Barely?" "Can you count it?" Li You and Jia Xu looked at Chen Xi in surprise.

"Well, it's very reluctant, but it's mainly subject to transportation and location. In the case of Nanyang, this does not exist. Speaking of which, haven't I sent you relevant plans before? There should be three commercial centers in the Central Plains in my plan." Chen Xi turned his head and said to Li You and Jia Xu.

"It's true that this is true, but you didn't explain it in detail at that time, and we were not very interested." Li You thought about the information he had made. After all, it was already a very early planning material. In the same period, there were actually development plans south of the Huai River and the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

These are all plans that were sealed off, and they are very long and basically they are plans that Li You did not come yet and Chen Xi did nothing to do.

"Yes, it's been a long time, but I finally embarked on this road. If you really want to say it, the place in Taishan is actually not suitable as a commercial center." Chen Xi explained after thinking about it, "But after all, it's the place where we started, so we can't treat it unfairly."

"As a commercial center in Nanyang, is the territory of a county?" Li You pressed his temple, which was really unimaginable. What kind of scene was this? Even though Li You received a proposal from Lu Su to expand Wang Xiu's Fenggao, the latter of a city and a county were too big, so it was necessary to achieve this level?

"Not just business, this place is in the heart of the Central Plains, and the transportation will be very convenient. As a commercial point, it is an introduction. If the manufacturing and handicrafts in this place rely on convenient transportation and resources to develop, it will be more convenient." Chen Xi said with a smile, "Business is just an external manifestation, and various needs will bring up a complete industry here."

Li You and Jia Xu have also understood what an industrial chain is over the years. Of course, although these two people cannot recognize them well, they at least know that as long as there is one such thing as an industrial chain, they can be eaten from beginning to end, and as long as they don’t mess around, they will automatically make money.

This is very important for these people who have reached a certain level. They don’t have to worry about anything. As long as they don’t mess around, they can expand naturally. This method is really perfect. If Chen Xi hadn’t often warned this group of people not to do anything randomly, even Li You might not be able to suppress the idea of ​​copying Chen Xi’s model.

For a country, how important it is to be rich is to see the current situation. Morality, ideals, and all nonsense. The people are actually not interested in these things. They will only have time to talk about these things when they are full.

Back then, there were all bandits all over Mount Tai, either professional bandits or part-time jobs for busy farming and slack farming. But now, there are all outstanding people in the Han Dynasty. Whether it is recruiting soldiers, doing charity, or doing entertainment, they are the top leaders.

To put it bluntly, it’s just that I’m full and have spare money in my pocket, so I have the intention to do things. Otherwise, if I can’t even eat enough, the group of people have time to think about other things, so they won’t dig up food in the soil to save them from starving to death.

Therefore, Li You is very clear that having money is very important, especially for the country. Raising soldiers, educating, defending the country, etc. requires money. As long as you have money, these are naturally not problems.

Why is Chen Xi arrogant? Why do everyone obey Chen Xi's command in government affairs? Why did Chen Xi say the order that major families relocate decisively? To put it bluntly, isn't it profit? To be simple, isn't it money? Give money, give big money, and throw you into the huge money that knocks you to the ground. What can you do?

The very clear benefit of following Chen Xi is that when spending money, no matter whether it is doing your own business or doing other people's business, you don't have to pay attention to saving, you only need to pay attention to the final effect, just the final effect!

If this is still not done well, then I won’t say it, only the word “ability”. In this way, it’s easy to distinguish whether you have the ability or not.

Therefore, when they heard that Nanyang could grow a complete industry, Li You decisively gave up other ideas, build it, build it after the construction, and grow a complete industry in this place, and they deserve to make the place prosperous.

Even if you don’t say what a complete industrial chain means, how profitable a commercial center is, Li You will have a clear feeling when reading Liu Ye’s reports every year.

The taxes of a county in Mount Tai rank second under Liu Bei's rule. It is estimated that the entire Han Dynasty is also second. As for the first, the first is Jizhou. A state and a county compare taxes, and it almost capsized. You can imagine how profitable the commercial center is.

However, the taxation of the commercial center cannot overcome the industrial chain, just a wool textile industry. Even if Liu Ye cannot calculate the complete calculation of many hidden things, those calculated parts combined have overwhelmed Taishan’s taxes.

Therefore, when I heard that Nanyang's energy-raising industry was complete, Li You decisively bowed his head and said nothing, and decidedly supported Chen Xi, just for this one, whatever you say is what you say.

"I think if you really turn this place into a commercial center and develop a complete industry, the Nanyang family will probably vomit blood." Jia Xu said after a while.

"They will definitely not be able to build it unless they are collectively done." Chen Xi said angrily, "Acknowledge the advantages of the current existence of the aristocratic family, but they do hinder certain things. They cannot build it here at all."

"Do I remember not three? Where is the other one?" Li You asked with his head turned around.

"In Jiangling, it is the best intersection of water and land transportation." Chen Xi thought for a while and said, "Many of my plans can only be implemented after unification. After so long, it has finally reached the time for unification. After unification, many things can continue to be done."

"Not yet, Sun Bofu and Cao Mengde have not come yet, and our army has not come either." Jia Xu had a rare smile. Unification is finally about to begin.

"After all, the dispatch of troops is slower. The fastest one is actually Sun Bofu, but he doesn't seem to want to go first." Chen Xi looked ahead. They came first the day after Liu Bei inspected the warehouse.

Relying on the advantages of transportation and the advantages of cavalry first, Liu Bei arrived first.

However, all those who came here were cavalry, the kind of strong army that had no chance to participate in the military parade before, and were secretly informed, mainly the 20,000 Iron Cavalry of Youzhou under Tian Yu, of which 6,000 White Horses were the Divine Speedy White Horses, and the other was Zang Hong's Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry, which was close to 20,000.

Both of these armies are quite reliable elites. Both have spent more than two years training and training, and have also participated in the Battle of Northern Xinjiang.

However, the difference is that Chen Gong left a backup plan for Lu Bu. As a result, Lu Bu ascended and had no choice but to use it. Chen Gong followed Zhang Liao and Gao Shun and others to go abroad, and he could only tell Zang Hong to be the commander.

To be honest, if Zang Hong and Hu Zhao had not surrendered to Liu Bei from behind, these two people would definitely not be able to support 20,000 cavalry. You should know that even Chen Gong followed Zhang Liao and Gao Shun to the country and only brought six thousand wolf cavalry, and the rest were just infantry.

At that time, Lu Bu's popularity in Bingzhou was not a joke. In addition, he defeated the Xianbei and sank the wolf's residence in Xushan, and then ascended to heaven to leave a myth to protect the safety of Bingzhou. The recognition of Lu Bu among the children of Bingzhou was still possible. Naturally, the difficulty of Chen Gong's recruitment of troops was reduced to the level of soldiers bringing their own dry food and actively signing up.

After that time, Chen Gong was able to acquire a large number of new recruits. However, in the Battle of Northern Xinjiang, another problem arose when Chen Gong left, that is, Chen Gong could not take all these people away, and he could not afford to take them away, so he had to disband most of them.

However, the number of new recruits who had met the standards still made Chen Gong's head bigger. After he and Zang Ba and Hu Zhao decided to do it again, Chen Gong brought nearly 10,000 new recruits who had seen blood to the Western Regions.

This is why it was no difficulty when the first wave of wolf cavalry was replenishing troops, because the soldiers at that time were already veterans.

The remaining soldiers surrendered to Liu Bei under the leadership of Zang Ba. However, even so, the Bingzhou wolf cavalry of 20,000 people had already widened the gap between the wolf cavalry under Zhang Liao, Cheng Lian and Hao Meng. However, wearing armor and pulling it out still had such a momentum.

By the way, this is already the largest wave of cavalry corps in this stage except for Dong Zhuo going out to Xiliang to lead the Qiang cavalry. After all, the cavalry people consume a lot of food for horses. However, compared with Dong Zhuo's beggar army, Chen Xi's version of cavalry corps, it is a real armor!

Naturally, the momentum of rushing all the way was very fierce. During the rushing and marching, Liu Bei had already recognized all the Du Bo. For this reason, all the soldiers had returned to their hearts. Even the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry, who worshipped Lu Bu's force, now silently placed Liu Taiwei's position second only to Lu Bu. Such a big man actually knew me!

In short, that's it. Liu Bei did not have any unnecessary means, but now Liu Bei has successfully brought his cavalry back to his heart. Chen Xi thought that he would be truly unified by then. During the period when Cao Sun stayed in the country for unification, Liu Bei might have recognized all their people.

Given the situation of national unification at that time, if the soldiers under Cao Sun were nominally appointed, it would be more likely to obey Liu Bei's command than Cao Sun's command.
Chapter completed!