Seeing Xu Wei's generosity, Hu Shang took out a few pieces of colored glaze jewelry and said, "This is the legendary colored glaze. It is most suitable for noble people like you and must be worn!"
Xu Wei looked at the dark green glass ornaments and smiled dumbly: "I don't need this!"
Just kidding, diamonds are barely considered gems, but glass can only be considered a handicraft, and this dark green one is extremely rubbish!
However, seeing these glass products also reminded Xu Wei that this was one of the three treasures of time travel. In this era, glass was also a precious gem. He actually forgot about such a way to make a fortune. He made many things, but he just forgot
Making glass!
Xu Wei continued to visit the Yuyang Market, and then came to the market selling cattle and horses! Most of the barbarians in the desert are now members of the Tengjia Army, and the Tengjia Army does not restrict them from entering the Han Dynasty, so in the past few years,
, the number of Hu merchants in the Han Dynasty has increased dozens of times. In the past, herdsmen waited for merchants to come to their tribes, but now the young herdsmen of the tribe are willing to come out and make their own way!
Xu Wei came to the cattle and horse market. Most of the shops here were established by Hu herdsmen. Cattle and horses were not valuable on the grasslands, but as long as they came to the hinterland of the Han Dynasty, even in border counties like Yuyang, the prices of cattle and horses would increase.
Many times, faced with such huge profits, the herdsmen are naturally unwilling to be exploited by profiteers.
They established their own shops one by one in markets all over the Han Dynasty, and then transported goods from the grasslands for sale. Relying on a stable source of goods, these barbarian shops flourished all over the territory of the Tengjia Army, monopolizing the entire Tengjia Army.
The cattle and horse market on the Jia Army's territory, and now the entire Teng Jia Army's sphere of influence, Hu Shang has become a very big force!
The place Xu Wei came to was a place called Baima Trading Company!
The owner of the trading firm was surprised when he saw Xu Wei: "Qu Shuai, why are you here?"
Xu Wei was surprised and said: "Do you know me?"
The owner of the trading firm said happily: "My name is Tuoba Ye. When Qushuai just occupied Mayi, Helian led me to attack Mayi. Of course we failed, and I was captured by you, Qushuai. But you, Qushuai, did not
They didn’t kill us, but let us open mines to atone for our sins. Later, I joined the Tengjia Army and opened this White Horse Trading Company with the spoils of war!”
Xu Wei really didn't expect to meet an acquaintance here. Xu Wei smiled and said: "It seems that you are doing well now and have become the boss!"
Tuoba Ye said with a smile: "This is all a good policy of Qu Shuai. In the past, when we were able to do business in the Han Dynasty, we had to pay whatever price those profiteers said! These profiteers had a war horse and half an ox.
Even if they are not willing to give it, now we do it ourselves and we will naturally make a lot more money!”
Xu Wei continued to ask: "How is the situation in the desert now? Is everyone living well?"
Tuoba Ye smiled and said: "It's much better than before. Qu Shuai helped us build a sturdy house, as well as a briquette stove and briquettes. We don't have to worry about ordinary white disasters. Moreover, we have green storage fodder and livestock on the grassland."
They are all fat and white. Even in winter, we don’t have to kill the animals. Instead, we take the animals south and sell them directly to the Han people. Now the entire Youzhou is reclaiming wasteland, and the price of cattle has doubled.
Our life is much better than before, and this is all brought about by Qu Shuai!"
After saying that Tuoba Ye must invite Xu Wei to dinner, he said that his current good life was brought about by Xu Wei. Xu Wei saw that he was so enthusiastic and could not refuse, so he followed him into Tuoba Ye's shop, and he
He ordered his men to prepare food, several large plates of beef and mutton, and then ordered a hot pot. After the guests and hosts sat down, they drank and chatted.
After chatting for a long time, Tuobaye asked: "Shuai Qu, I heard that after the autumn harvest, we will attack Jizhou?"
Xu Wei nodded and said: "Preparations have already begun. As soon as there is enough food for the autumn harvest, we will go south!"
Tuoba Ye said excitedly: "Then we must recruit more warriors from our tribe. The warriors in our tribe are loyal to Commander Qu, and they all want to help Commander Qu!"
The life on the grassland is much better than before. The older generation of herdsmen are grateful to Xu Wei. Because of Xu Wei, the mortality rate on the grassland has been greatly reduced. No more people will die because of a white disaster.
At the same time, the Tengjia Army unified the desert and ended decades of war in the desert. Peace is always the most precious thing in a place.
But all Xu Wei did cannot change the fact that the grassland is cold and miserable. After the Tengjia Army occupied the desert, there was no distinction between Hus and Han people within the scope of the Tengjia Army. Everyone was a member of the Tengjia Army, plus
Xu Wei did not restrict population movement, so a large number of herders began to live in Han Dynasty.
And Xu Wei recruited a large number of herdsmen soldiers, which also allowed a large number of herdsmen on the grasslands to see the prosperity of the Han Dynasty. After seeing this prosperity, the herdsmen were basically unwilling to return to the grasslands!
The herdsmen who started when Xu Wei ruled the desert are different from the older generation. They are not willing to live in the cold and miserable desert. They prefer the prosperous and lively Han land. This is also the reason why the Hu merchants in the Tengjia army's territory have skyrocketed.
This is also the reason why herdsmen like to join the army. Apart from herding, herdsmen actually don’t have many skills. If you want to live in the Han region, it is obviously impossible to live in the Han region without any skills!
Joining the army has become the first choice of these herdsmen. The herdsmen have not been naturalized for a long time, and they have not forgotten the skills of killing people. Joining the army in the Tengjia Army not only pays a high monthly salary, but also a rich amount of loot.
Tuoba Ye participated in the battle to attack the Huns and received 2 war horses and 5 cows as trophies. With these trophies, Tuoba Ye had the start-up capital to establish the White Horse Trading Company. In addition, he had the experience of joining the army.
, with funding from Tengjia Army Money Bank, and a little bit of Tuoba Ye's own luck, he was able to do a great job in business.
Now he has become one of the largest horse dealers in Yuyang. Because he is a Xianbei native, going to the desert is like going to his own home. He has established cooperative relationships with more than a dozen Xianbei tribes, which makes him
You can always buy high-quality war horses and cattle at the lowest price, and these high-quality war horses and cattle make their business boom!
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Xu Weidao: "Don't worry, this expedition to Jizhou will inevitably involve recruiting herders from the grasslands!"
Tuoba Ye smiled and said: "Shuai Qu, Jizhou is a large plain, which is most suitable for the cavalry of our grassland to gallop. This time, Commander Qu wants to recruit more warriors. 100,000 is not much, 200,000 is just right!"
Xu Wei smiled and said: "Try your best!"
Xu Wei was relieved to learn that Tuoba Ye was so active in conscription. He also came to Yuyang this time to explore the herdsmen's willingness to conscript. Now it seems that everyone is very positive!
After communicating with Tuoba Ye, with Yuyang as the center, the entire desert was filled with messengers of the Tengjia Army. They spread the news that the Tengjia Army was recruiting troops throughout the desert!
Then the whole desert was boiling. The young herdsmen mounted their beloved war horses one by one, took out their treasured swords, and began to gather in tribal units. Then they began to enter the Yuyang military camp under the leadership of the tribal elders!
The war against Jizhou has now begun. The Tengjia Army will recruit 100,000 cavalry from the entire grassland this time! And train them in Yuyang!
Yanzhou, Taishan County!
At this time, Cao Cao and Zang Ba were meeting secretly in a small upper valley!
Cao Cao said sincerely: "Commander Qu, as long as you are willing to recruit me, I recommend you to be Zhenwei Zhonglang General. Your subordinates can cultivate in Taishan County, and the soldiers in your hands can also be reorganized and continue to lead. I promise you a
A quota of 10,000 soldiers!”
Lei Gong is now ready to attack Jizhou. Even though he knows that Lei Gong will attack Jizhou after the autumn harvest, when Lei Gong really takes over Jizhou, Cao Cao, as the prefect of Taishan County, will face Lei Gong's army. By then, his situation will be extremely difficult.
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And his subordinate Yuan Shao has now completely given up his foundation in Qingzhou and led his subordinates to occupy the entire Henan Yin, as well as most of Yuzhou and Yanzhou. It can be said that his subordinate Yuan Shao has slowly risen to become a king!
All this makes Cao Cao very anxious. He also has ideals and ambitions to revitalize the Han Dynasty, but his current strength cannot support his ideals and ambitions! The future situation will even become more and more dangerous for Cao Cao!
Cao Cao followed Xun Yu's suggestion and wanted to go south to Xuzhou to seek hegemony and use Qingxu's status as his foundation. Especially now that Yuan Shao's forces have withdrawn from Qingzhou, and the biggest force in Qingzhou is the white-faced scholar Kong Rong, who cannot stop him at all.
Cao Cao captured Qingzhou. For Cao Cao, the biggest obstacle to his capture of Qingzhou was the Yellow Turban Army in Qingzhou!
If he wanted to conquer Qingxu, the first step was to deal with the Taishan thief Zang Ba. Now Cao Cao didn't have much time, so he gave his best conditions to recruit Zang Ba! You must know that even Xiahou Dun is now in Cao Cao
His subordinate was just a lieutenant, and now Cao Cao offered Zang Ba the military position of Zhonglang General, which was equivalent to taking the position of the first general under his command.
Zang Ba has long wanted to surrender to the imperial court. During the years since his uprising, he has spent most of his time hiding on Mount Tai to escape the pursuit of the Han army. He and his subordinates have long wanted to live in this way. Now Cao Cao has given him
The salary offered was so good, and he could even repay 10,000 of his trusted subordinates. What else could he be dissatisfied with? Could he continue to live a miserable life hiding in Mount Tai?
So after negotiating the terms of recruitment with Cao Cao, Zang Ba happily left Mount Tai with his hundreds of thousands of men and came to Cao Cao's territory.
Cao Cao also attached great importance to these subordinates of Zang Ba. He first organized 10,000 elite troops and handed them over to Zang Ba. He arranged for all the remaining hundreds of thousands of troops to be stationed in Taishan County!
The Central Plains has been in chaos and war for many years. The people either fled to the north bank of the Yellow River, or defected to the Yellow Turban Army and died in battles with the Han Dynasty, or they hid in the forts of powerful nobles. Taishan County under Cao Cao's rule was underpopulated.
Thirty percent of the peak period, and only this 30% of the population, is still in the hands of the nobles. Obviously, with Cao Cao's strength, it is difficult to collect taxes from the nobles, and it is also difficult to recruit troops from the nobles!
And now these subordinates of Zang Ba are the best people for Cao Cao now! Zang Ba's surrender not only gave Cao Cao 10,000 more soldiers, but also hundreds of thousands more tribesmen!
Taishan County has a lot of wasteland. Even though Cao Cao has been recruiting gangsters from all over the world for more than a year, there is still a lot of wasteland. Cao Cao invited his friend Zao Zhi from Yingchuan to help cultivate it.
Zao Zhi worked in Dasi Nongfu in his early years and was familiar with farming affairs. Like Liu Yu, he believed that to solve the current situation of the Han Dynasty, we must find ways to appease the refugees.
The best way to solve the problem of refugees is to colonize sparsely populated border areas. This can not only solve the food problem of the border army, improve the combat effectiveness of the border army, but also solve the problem of refugees in the Central Plains.
When he was an official, he promoted the policy of reclamation. Unfortunately, such a policy was good, but it seriously affected the interests of the nobles, so the nobles used their connections to remove Official Zao Zhi and overthrow the officials.
Zao Zhi's policies were changed. Zao Zhi resigned in anger!
Now Cao Cao wanted to promote the reclamation policy and asked him to come out. Zao Zhi really wanted to do something for the people of the world, so he came out to help Cao Cao settle down in Taishan County!
After defeating Zang Ba, Cao Cao's situation improved a lot. He now had an army of 30,000 men and hundreds of thousands more troops who could collect taxes. The situation in Taishan County was improved.
Then Xun Yu analyzed the current world situation to Cao Cao. Finally, he told Cao Cao that the forces that can determine the direction of the world now include Lei Gong of the Tengjia Army, Yuan Shao of Luoyang City, Yuan Shu of Yuzhou, and Liu Bei of Jingzhou.
These forces are stronger than Cao Cao, and if Cao Cao wants to save the country, he must strengthen his own power and have his own righteousness, so Xun Yu proposed that "it is better to obey the emperor's orders and disobey the ministers, cultivate crops, and raise military resources. In this way, he will be the overlord."
The career can be accomplished."
Xun Yu smiled and said: "Now the only way out for Duke Ming is to occupy Qingzhou, ally with Xuzhou, find a way to annex Yanzhou, and use the power of Qing, Xu and Yan to ally with Yuan Shao to jointly resist Duke Lei's invasion of the Central Plains! Now Duke Ming's time is running out.
, if Yuan Shao controls Guandong, Yuzhou, and Yanzhou, I’m afraid he will not ally with Duke Ming, but directly annex Qingxu and use the power of the entire Central Plains to resist Duke Lei!"
Cao Cao worriedly said: "Qingzhou is the territory of the Han Dynasty. As the governor of Taishan County, I have no reason to occupy Qingzhou. With our strength, it is difficult to occupy Qingzhou!"
But Xun Yu smiled and said: "There is no strong army in Qingzhou now, and Kong Rong, the governor of Beihai, is not knowledgeable in military affairs. Yu Du and others from the cholera epidemic were in Qingzhou when they saw Yuan Shao's army leaving, so they thought they would not continue to hide in the mountains.
We've got it! We just need to pay attention to the situation in Qingzhou. If necessary, we can lure the Yellow Turban Army to attack Beihai County. Kong Rong will invite us to Qingzhou when the time comes!"
Sure enough, within a few days, Kong Rong's messenger Taishi Ci ran to Cao Cao and said: "100,000 Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army, led by Yu Du, surrounded Beihai County. Duke Ming ordered me to come and ask for the support of Prefect Cao!"
Cao Cao was surprised and said: "Kong Wenju also knows me, Cao Mengde!"
So Cao Cao gathered 20,000 troops and marched towards Beihai County!