Invincible from the beginning of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 297 Xun Yu's Shock
Zhang Ming is formulating a strategy here. Since he can't get land, he can also need people.

Their strategy is simple, Zhang Ming plans to cooperate with Zhang Yan in addition to recruiting refugees.

Zhang Yan is the largest group of Yellow Turbans. At this time, there are still tens of thousands of people under his command, but only 10+ of these 10 people can fight, and there are 10,000 elites among these 10,000+ people.

Zhang Ming planned to send someone to contact him and buy population from him.

That's right, buy it.

He couldn't afford it, so Zhang Ming helped him.

Moreover, there are many others, so you can grab them.

In the past, food was robbed, but now people are robbed, village by village, no matter how old or weak.

And Zhang Ming's request is that the whole family can be served in one pot, including babies, old people and adults.

After formulating a good strategy, Zhang Ming is to accumulate strength, and wait until Yuan Shao goes to war again, then he will build a territory at that time.

Next time, Zhang Ming will no longer be a supporting role, but will lead the direction of the battlefield.

In the next three-party war, at least one party must be eliminated.

Once the strategy is formulated, the next step is execution.

Zhang Ming asked Xi Zhicai to secretly arrange, contact Zhang Yan, and buy population.

Next, Zhang Ming doesn't need to deal with it himself.

Zhang Ming began to live a life of drunkenness and dreams again.

It's downright corrupt.

Da Qiao and Xiao Qiao accompanied me in the hot spring today.

Drinking tomorrow, Diao Chan will serve you.

The day after tomorrow, let Da Qiao and Xiao Qiao wear uniforms with Diao Chan.

As for Cai Yan and Zhang Ning, both of them are pregnant and are raising their babies at this time. Zhang Ming tries to accompany them every day as much as possible.

After a few days of drunkenness and dreaming, Zhang Ming received the news that Xun Yu and Cao Ang had come.

The two came with a mission.

Zhang Ming has also inquired about the news.

He summoned Xi Zhicai and Tian Feng.

Every time Zhang Ming sees them, it is at night, and during the day, he asks them to do errands, while Zhang Ming consumes them everywhere and conducts strategic flickering.

"Zhicai, Tian Feng, and Cao Ang are here to borrow, do we have extra money to borrow?"

In fact, Tian Feng knew this best.

"My lord, there is a sum of money. Qingzhou has recovered hundreds of thousands of dollars, which can be used."

Zhang Ming nodded, Cao Cao can't be too weak.

"Then if the interest is suitable, I will lend it to them. I won't come forward in this matter, and Tian Feng will handle it entirely."

"However, I have a proposal. Half of the money will be converted into money, and the other half will be converted into money with salt. I will lend them money. The interest will be calculated on a monthly basis. The interest of 10 per month will be deducted first."

This is definitely usury, and it is not usually high.

However, Zhang Ming didn't ask them to borrow money, whether to borrow or not.

With table salt, Zhang Ming can predict that the market in Yanzhou will be opened soon.

After Cao Cao found out that salt was so profitable, how could he not use it when he was short of money?
After explaining to Tian Feng and Xi Zhicai, Zhang Ming let them leave.

I have to maintain the image of a "faint king".

Zhang Ming now appears to be ignoring government affairs, and only enjoys himself all day long, but in fact, the military and government are all under his control and run according to his will.

Cao Ang and Xun Yu finally entered Youzhou with a team of more than 200 people.

Some of them are football teams, others are students, and others are spies.

They want to collect all kinds of intelligence.

"It's said that Zhang Ming's tyranny ruled everything to build a city for his enjoyment. Now that he enters Youzhou, it's a place where the government is well organized and the people are harmonious."

Xun Yu entered Youzhou for the first time, but he didn't see any tyranny, but a different scene.

Cao Ang has been here, and he feels that Youzhou is now more prosperous.

"Zhang Ming really likes to enjoy himself and rarely handles government affairs, but he definitely did not impose tyranny on Youzhou, on the contrary, many of them are benevolent."

Xun Yu nodded, the matter must be taken seriously.

"It seems that there is another evaluation of Zhang Ming."

Xun Yu was not in a hurry along the way. Although Cao Cao was about to be exposed, he had to get to know him better and was not in a hurry to negotiate with Zhang Ming.

After Xun Yu entered Youzhou, he walked for six days before reaching Jixian County.

At this time, he didn't go to the new city not far away to take a look, but he felt that he must go and have a look before negotiating.

They were resting in an inn, and Xun Yu sat opposite Cao Ang.

"Eldest son, your idea may be right, this Zhang Ming is definitely rich."

"The people in Youzhou are very happy. Every family has land. Although the tax is not low, at least they don't have to pay the landlord for land rent."

What Xun Yu understood was the situation of the most ordinary people.

These common people have food to eat and live a good life, so it is all nonsense for Zhang Ming to take away the people's fat and people's anointing to enjoy it.

Before he came, he didn't dare to be sure, but after checking now, this Youzhou is not bad.

"Sir, how much do you think we need to borrow?"

"At least 1000 million yuan is needed, otherwise it won't have much effect."

Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty cost 2000 million yuan to sell a prefect, so borrowing 1000 million yuan is not much.

Cao Ang nodded, and said, "Then let's go to Zhang Ming tomorrow."

"Don't be in a hurry, if you go too fast, you will be passive instead."

Xun Yu planned to go to the new town to see what scale Zhang Ming built.

The next day, they drove away together.

What I saw was a busy scene.

Here, a large area is a construction site, and workers come and go.

Lots of people coming and going.

The transportation of various materials back and forth is under construction both inside and outside the city.

In the inner city, in addition to the part of the imperial city that has already been built, buildings with various functions have also begun to be planned.

The construction of the city wall was also very fast, mainly using stones, and Zhang Ming also used steel bars and concrete.

At the same time, a large library was under construction in the city. The foundation of this library had just been laid. Because several floors of buildings were to be built, the migrant workers first used other buildings to practice their hands, and only then began to lay the foundation.

When Xun Yu and Cao Ang saw this large construction site, they were also extremely shocked.

They went around for hours and didn't finish watching it, it was too complicated.

Maybe there is no drawing, so it is impossible to see the appearance of this place clearly.

The city still needs to be built for at least a year, but the palace in the middle, which is for the empress dowager and the prince, can already be used for people.

Although it can accommodate people, Zhang Ming seldom comes here, except for soaking in hot springs.

Now, the periphery of the imperial city has also been under construction.

Xun Yu went shopping with Cao Ang for two days. After returning, Cao Ang went to Zhang Ming.

But he couldn't see Zhang Ming, and Zhang Ming didn't plan to meet him at all.

On the contrary, Tian Feng treated him well.

The two began to negotiate.

Cao Ang is very straightforward, and he explained his intentions when he met.

"1000 million, it's not impossible."

Tian Feng gave an affirmative answer.

Tian Feng said: "This is different from ordinary loans, and the interest is very high. After all, we have to take the risk of not getting it back."

Cao Ang said, "How much?"

"10% monthly interest"

Cao Ang took a deep breath, and the interest is 100 million a month.

"But what other conditions are there?"

"Of course there is. You can only borrow 500 million in cash, and you can use salt instead. I accidentally produced a little more."

500 million cash and 500 million salt, [-]% interest.

Cao Ang had no choice but to agree immediately, so he had to go back and discuss with Xun Yu.

In fact, Xun Yu should come to this negotiation, but Xun Yu wanted Cao Ang to find out.

The negotiations on the first day were fruitless, as expected.

(End of this chapter)