Chapter two hundred and sixty-five fear of power but not virtuous
"Haha! Not bad!"
"Yuan Benchu suffered such a big loss and actually endured it."
At the General's Mansion in the East China Sea Territory, Su Fan looked at the news from An Xiao with a smile on his face.
Although Su Fan had become the lord of Xuzhou, he did not move to Xiapi. Instead, he still lived in the East China Sea Territory.
After all, his general's mansion was built with a lot of effort. Although the decoration of the entire mansion is antique on the outside, the inside is similar to the earth of later generations.
The flush toilet, the bathtub, the shower, and even the lights are all transformed using runes.
The energy condensed by runes can also be converted into heat energy, light energy, etc. The principle of lighting energy is still very simple. Electric energy is converted into heat energy, and the filament is heated and emits light.
There is nothing difficult about light bulb filaments and the like for those ink workers. Maybe they don’t understand the conservation of energy, but you just have to tell them.
Those people can copy it quickly, this is the ability of the ink workers.
Of course, in this world, in addition to oil lamps, wealthy and powerful families also have a kind of fluorescent stone, a natural luminous body.
It's just that Su Fan felt uncomfortable. Of course, these fluorescent stones were not the radioactive things that later generations said.
However, Su Fan didn't like it, so he still asked Mo Gong to build this electrical energy system.
And this has also become a hot pursuit among the big families. At least in Donghai County, it is quite popular among the big families, and they are all proud to be able to create this set.
It can be said that Su Fan is leading the new fashion.
Two hundred years passed through several lives, but Su Fan still didn't dare or didn't want to forget the first life.
The bright and spacious meeting hall, the bearskin and tiger leather sofas, and the coffee table next to the sofa are all made of white jade porcelain, and a little bit of heat slowly leaks out from inside.
A group of counselors and generals are sitting on this sofa. It doesn't look like ancient times at all, but rather like a modern meeting.
"My Lord, the two Zhang Bao brothers are decisive. It seems that they have experienced Zhang Jiao's life and death."
"By seizing a few cities, the strength of Zhang Bao and his friends will increase. Then we can continue to lure them out of the mountain to harass Jizhou."
Guo Jia and others were all smiling, because Zhang Bao and others suddenly attacked, forcing Yuan Shao's army that was originally chasing Gongsun Zan to withdraw.
It is already very difficult to pursue them now. Going back and forth consumes a lot of manpower.
If one of them is not good, if it is folded inside, it will be ruined.
Marching and fighting is also a great test. After all, this place is not like modern times and the roads are smooth.
Although Shenhan inherited Xian Qin, the main road was indeed not small and very long, but after all, it did not extend in all directions, and some of them had to cross mountains and ridges, which was also a great training for the army.
As for whether Zhang Bao and the others will become stronger and threaten them, no one will care.
It's not that they look down on the Yellow Turbans.
But the Yellow Turban Army is different from those princes. Those princes, no matter what, are still recognized by people and recognized by aristocratic families.
As for the Yellow Turban Army, not to mention the recognition by the nobles, even many local people did not recognize it.
The people at the bottom, even though they have never read, still understand the harm caused by the Yellow Turbans.
The reality is that Taiping Road was not bad at first, but the Yellow Turban Army was different. Everywhere they went, they almost caused great harm to the people and animals there.
And more importantly, Zhang Bao and the others have no base. As the base of Taihang Mountain, it is difficult to attack, but if they want to develop, it is impossible.
Without a foundation, it is impossible to develop, and relying solely on plunder will not last long.
So everyone doesn't care about the increase in strength of Zhang Bao and others. The stronger they are, the better. In that case, Yuan Shao will have even more headaches.
"But Zhang Bao and the others can only be regarded as partial troops. If it hadn't been for this surprise attack, which caught Yuan Benchu off guard, Yuan Benchu might not have come back to rescue him at all."
"The key is to look at Gongsun Zan"
Several counselors still valued Gongsun Zan more. After all, Zhang Bao and the others only had the same strength and did not have strong fighting power.
Although there are millions of troops, they have all seen the Yellow Turban Army before. Except for a few troops, the other Yellow Turban Army are no different from fleeing refugees.
He has the fighting ability of a ghost.
Gongsun Zan was not in pain, although this time Gongsun Zan returned with a huge defeat, and even half of his strongest white horse Yi Cong was lost.
However, their foundation is still there. As long as they have money and food, they will be able to recover quickly, even if they cannot return to their peak.
Yuan Shao wants to attack Youzhou, and if the former resists desperately, he will definitely bite off a piece of his opponent's flesh.
"Yes, my lord, you can continue to support the opponent with a batch of resources, and at the same time, you can also exchange for a batch of war horses, cattle and sheep."
Is there any shortage of war horses in the East China Sea Territory? Of course they are. After all, the cavalry is always the king of land warfare.
In an era before thermal weapons appeared, cavalry was the king of the era, even if you had all means to restrain it.
But that's just restraint.
The East China Sea Territory has abundant supplies and can raise as many cavalry as there are war horses, unlike Gongsun Zan and others, although it is easy to obtain war horses.
But the cavalry, they don't exceed 200,000 at most. If they exceed this number, they really can't afford it.
The cost of raising a cavalryman is even five to ten times that of an infantryman, especially raising war horses is even more expensive.
The war horse is not a horse, you can just throw it on the grass.
Others, even Yuan Shao, did not dare to raise too many cavalry, but this was not a problem for the East China Sea Territory.
The East China Sea Territory is so rich in materials. The East China Sea Territory's annual output is richer than any other state.
The productivity far exceeds that of other regions, so there is no problem in saying that the East China Sea Territory is the richest land of the gods.
And as Xuzhou fell into Su Fan's hands, Su Fan's eastern sea territory continued to radiate to the surrounding areas, and the output under his rule became stronger and stronger.
Raising hundreds of thousands of cavalry is not a problem at all.
Youzhou produces horses, especially the tall horses in Youzhou. Su Fan asked Mi Zhu to buy war horses before, and most of them came from Youzhou.
Since most of Bingzhou fell into the hands of the prairie barbarians, it became much more difficult to trade war horses from there.
Because these prairie barbarians are simple-minded and don't know how to do business, but they are very good at being bandits.
As time went by, few businessmen would go to Bingzhou.
Only in Youzhou, Gongsun Zan is there, and his white-horse Yi Cong are the powerful barbarians in the north.
It was only through the bloody killings that the barbarians were frightened that they could live in peace.
Liu Yu's comfort was extremely ridiculous. If it weren't for the border troops and if Gongsun Zan hadn't kept killing and frightened the barbarians, he would have been able to comfort them.
The prairie barbarians are always fearful of power and unethical.