After Yuan Wan had eaten, the pottery merchant prepared a clean tent for her, and asked the soldiers to prepare hot water and clean clothes, so that she could wash her body carefully in the tent.
After the medical officer looked at Mrs. Feng's injuries, he also said that she was not seriously injured.
Speaking of which, the potter's attack was actually quite measured. Although he was angry, the blow was not very severe. After all, he was a gentleman, and he couldn't be as arrogant as a rogue.
Compared with the trauma, Mrs. Feng may have been more frightened.
After settling the two widows of the Yuan family, Tao Shang began to prepare for the withdrawal of the army, and sent people to inform Zhao Yun that he had found the two widows of the Yuan family, and asked him to quickly lead Ji Ling to join forces with him.
One place, I saw it when I came back.
After handling these chores, the pottery merchant wanted to take a rest, but by chance, Yan Zhen's urgent military information was delivered to the pottery merchant's hands.
In the military report, Sima Yi stated in detail Sima Yi's thoughts on Cao Jun's desire to conquer Changxi, and reported to Tao Shang. Sima Yi and Wang Ling had already gathered all the soldiers in the county and headed straight for Taishan County.
After reading it, the potter took a deep breath and slowly closed his eyes.
As expected, Cao Cao is not comparable to Yuan Shu, Sun Ce, Lu Bu and others. One move after another, how many tricks can he use that are hard to guard against?
Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi are still young, and their abilities are not yet up to the level of those monster counselors under Cao Cao. However, they both played a huge role against Cao Cao this time. If they have more experience in the future, they should also
It's enough to stand alone.
Therefore, Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi, the two county magistrates, still have to continue their work.
"Pei Qian!" the pottery merchant greeted.
When I was young, I saw Pei Qian walking in: "What are your orders, Grand Master?"
"Look for Xu Huang and Guan Hai."
Pei Qian took the order and left. When he was young, he saw two people walking into the handsome tent.
"Master, did you ask me to wait?"
Tao Shang analyzed the status of the Taishan Army and Cao's army with Sima Yi, and then told the two of them: "Now Sima Yi and Wang Ling are sending troops to Taishan County to support, but Taishan County is the boundary of Cao's army, and
There are not many soldiers in Chaoqiu County, and their combat power is not very strong. Even with their support, Taishi Ci and Zang Ba will be unable to support them alone. I am afraid that they will be in danger. You two should quickly gather our troops.
All Taishan Camp troops rushed to support, don't let Taishi Ci and Sima Yi make any mistakes."
Hearing this, Xu Huang said: "General, take your orders! However, if you act like this, I will advise you to ask the Taifu not to return to Pengcheng for the time being. You need to display your troops on the border of Xuzhou and Yuzhou first, as a deterrent, so that Cao Cao thinks that the Taifu intends to take advantage of the opportunity."
Victory marches into the Central Plains, so that Cao's army will have a new defense against Taifu, and no large army will go to Taishan County to support him in the short term. In this way, we can rescue Taishi Ci and others, and we have a greater chance of winning."
The pottery merchant was deeply impressed by Xu Huang's military strategy and calm and mature character.
Historically, in the Cao family group with many good generals, being able to be listed as one of the five good generals is indeed a well-deserved reputation.
"Okay, as Gongming said, Tao will not return to Pengcheng for the time being. I will put pressure on Cao Cao in Xuchang here, and I will leave the support from Taishan County to you, Gongming."
Xu Huang said loudly: "Don't worry, Taifu, I will definitely succeed in the end!"
After that, the pottery merchant turned to Guan Hai and said to him: "Guan Hai, you gathered people in Qingzhou back then. In terms of the geographical location of your activities, it was close to Taishan County and Langya County, and you were also a member of the Green Forest.
You are more or less familiar with Taishan County's routines, so this time you will serve as Gong Ming's deputy and try to make some contributions. Tao will definitely be rewarded later."
After Guan Hai surrendered to the pottery merchants, his first great achievement was to persuade Liu Pi, Gong Du, Zhou Cang and others. However, he never participated in any major battles, even this time with Cao Jun.
In a confrontation, they are just serving as guards in the rear camp.
Now that he finally got an opportunity to fight, Guan Hai was naturally elated. He also wanted to let the pottery merchant see his true ability, so he agreed without hesitation.
After the two men left, Tao Shang ordered each battalion to cancel their plan to return to Pengcheng. Instead, he ordered each battalion to prepare to change their route to the west and station their troops and horses at the junction of Yuzhou and Xuzhou to attract Cao Cao's attention in Xuchang.
.
Since Cao Mengde, you want to play with me, then let's have a good time.
On the second day after the order was issued, a man rushed from Jinling City to the pottery camp.
It was Xu Jing, the benefactor who promoted filial piety and integrity for the pottery merchant.
Since the death of Kongzhi, Xu Jing has been working under the pottery merchants. Since Xu Jing had stayed in Jiaozhou for a period of time at that time and had a close relationship with Shi Xie, the prefect of Jiaozhi, the pottery merchants had always asked him to serve as his partner.
The messenger who communicates with Shixie hopes to get the support of Jiaozhi Shixie, and it is best to become an ally.
Shi Xie's strength was not weak. He occupied four counties and owned most of the territory of Lingnan.
However, Shi Xie's territory was far away from the Central Plains. There were Liu Biao, Zhang Zi, Tao Shang and other big forces in the north and northeast. It was completely impossible for him to move northward, and he could only settle in a corner of the country.
However, Tao Shang was not interested in Shi Xie's city and troops at the moment. The main reason why he established a good relationship with Shi Xie was to get rice from Champa.
Champa rice was introduced to China during the Song Dynasty. Its birthplace is central and southern Vietnam. After being introduced to China, it was vigorously promoted in the Jianghuai and Zhejiang areas and became the dominant food crop in the Yangtze River Basin.
Nowadays, all areas along the Yangtze River are in the hands of pottery merchants. Although farming in the south of the Yangtze River has improved over the years, pottery merchants still have hope for Champa rice.
In the concept of pottery merchants, grasshoppers are also considered meat! If you can get it, never let it go! If you can't pick up money on the street, just throw it away!
If the Champa rice can really be obtained, and the pottery merchants are given two years to promote it throughout the Yangtze River, the pottery merchants believe that the grain production of their subordinates will reach an astonishing figure.
Moreover, places like Yuzhang County and Kuaiji County have extremely large areas, but their development is still relatively backward. Agriculture is naturally the most important foundation for economic development.
Historically, during the Song Dynasty, the Fujian area received 30,000 hu of rice from Zhancheng, and its agricultural and grain harvests developed qualitatively, and it became an economic farming land in the southeast.
The pottery merchant had a premonition this time. He felt that Xu Jing came to see him in a hurry, probably because of the matter of occupying the city rice.
Sure enough, after meeting the pottery merchant, Xu Jing immediately said: "Master, there is news about Zaohe!"
"Zhaohe?" The pottery merchant was stunned when he heard this: "What is that?"
Xu Jing smiled and said: "It is the Champa rice you mentioned. After many inquiries, I learned that this grain comes from Linyi State! More than sixty years ago, our great Han Dynasty Gongcao District Company of Xianglin County led thousands of troops to occupy the area.
He conquered the county seat, killed the county magistrate, and then expanded the territory. He called himself the king of Linyi, and later passed down his grandson Fan Xiong. After Xiong's death, the current head of Linyi was named Fan Yi. Yi was determined to restore old friendship with our dynasty, especially
His close neighbors, namely Shi Xie and Jiangdong Tao, therefore intended to offer early-grain rice seeds as a gift to meet him."
The pottery merchant was overjoyed when he heard this.
"When will the rice seeds arrive?"
Xu Jing said: "Rice seeds can be transported to Jinling City at any time, but right now Fan Yi, the head of Linyi, wants us to use our Jinling City's salt and iron in exchange. I don't know about this..."
The pottery merchant pondered for a moment after hearing the words, and then said for a long time: "Salt can be given to him, but iron tools cannot be given to him. China and the earth will be unified sooner or later. Linyi was also my Han territory sixty years ago. It cannot be discarded. I cannot give my
Iron weapons are provided to future opponents for nothing to increase their strength...even if they are weak opponents, it will not work."
Hearing this, Xu Jing stroked his beard and said, "I understand, I will negotiate this matter later."
The pottery merchant said with emotion: "Thank you for your service, Mr. Xu. I have already petitioned the emperor to reinstate Mr. Xu as Shangshulang. Later, you can tell Fan Yi of Linyi and say that there are frequent wars in Jinling and we have too much iron to take care of ourselves. It's really
There is no way to provide him with anything else, any salt, minerals, grain, gold, or pottery will do."
"Don't worry, Taifu. It's safe for my subordinates. No matter what, I have to fight for the rice seeds from Zaohe for Taifu."
Speaking of this, Xu Jing suddenly said: "Master, when I am walking back from Jiaozhi this time, I will talk to Shi Xie. His spies in Jingzhou seem to have got a rather secret news."
The potter raised his eyebrows.
Liu Biao is still an ally of the pottery merchants. The layout of the school affairs office in Jingzhou is currently far less effective than that in places such as Hebei and the Central Plains, so it is easy to overlook some things.
"What secret message?"
Xu Jing took a deep breath and said: "Liu Biao seems to have a close relationship with Yuan Shao at the moment, but now Yuan Shao's political leanings are rivals of Taifu and Cao Cao. Taifu must be on guard against him."