The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 339
The city of Xiapi is busy, with all kinds of wood and bluestone passing through the streets, and even department store hawkers setting up stalls along the street.

The first batch of rich merchants started looking for shops immediately after they settled in Xiapi Guocheng, but after learning that Xiapi Guocheng was going to be rebuilt, they all asked to participate in the construction, but at this time Zhen Jia smiled and said that he had already undertaken all the new projects. Shops and government office area.

Afterwards, Zhen Jia negotiated with other wealthy businessmen. In the end, Zhen Jia regretfully handed over the construction of the government office area to the rest of the wealthy businessmen, but those wealthy businessmen will also get two shops in the central area accordingly.

Of course, Zhen Jia wisely chose to leave ten shops to Dongfang Sheng, and Dongfang Sheng assigned these ten shops to Tang Youqian. The first flagship store of the Oriental Bodyguard Bureau will appear in Xiapi Guocheng.

The rebuilding of Xiapiguo city here is in full swing, and the whereabouts of the [-] new troops over there will soon be properly arranged. Because the spring sowing season is missed, there is no farm work to do now, so Dongfang Sheng will rebuild. The work was handed over to the [-] new troops.

Building materials, demolition of buildings, and construction of new houses, all these jobs gave the [-] new troops a chance to make money, but Dongfang Sheng had already said that the rewards would be paid in the form of food.

Dongfang Sheng and Dongfang Leopard were walking on the streets of Xiapiguo City in casual clothes. There were rushing people everywhere. Some old houses were painted with a big Chinese character "demolition" with red paint, and a circle was drawn at the same time. .

Dongfang Leopard followed Dongfang Sheng with a thick notebook in his hand and said, "Brother is really amazing. Although the tax is exempted, the money spit out by those rich businessmen is no less than tax collection."

Dongfang Sheng said with a smile: "When the second and third batch of wealthy businessmen come in, you will know the benefits of my doing so."

Dongfang Leopard said with some embarrassment: "General Zhao and I planned to ask Mr. Jia to persuade you before, but now it seems that our vision is too short-sighted."

"Of course it's not enough to just rely on the things sent by these wealthy businessmen." Dongfang Sheng hid a speeding ox drive that pulls timber: "The main reason is that I will open shops run by the imperial court in the new city, so as to ensure that all Long-term development of counties."

"But our Han Dynasty stipulates that merchants are cheap businesses. If the court manages it by itself..." Dongfang Leopard said with some concern.

These are some regulations on various industries during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Merchant is a cheap industry. No matter how much money you have, you are not allowed to wear silk and satin clothes. This is a restraint for merchants.

"Agriculture is based on the root, and business is based on the branches and leaves. It doesn't work without the roots, and it doesn't work without the branches and leaves." Dongfang Sheng said across a small ditch.

Dongfang Leopard froze for a moment, then followed, a strange look flashed in his eyes.

As soon as Dongfang Sheng turned his head, Dongfang Leopard immediately returned to normal, and followed with a simple and honest smile.

If a city wants to quickly recover its popularity, it is a good way to build a lot.

In the following three months, Dongfang Sheng kept asking Tang Youqian to spread the news, and Tang Youqian was also responsible for recruiting some refugees from various states. As long as they were willing to come to Xuzhou, they would distribute a certain amount of land and exempt from any taxes. one year.

Dongfangsheng will set up a clerk in every city in Xuzhou to be responsible for the name information of the refugees at different levels, which is also easy to manage.

A large number of refugees poured in, and it happened to be the spring plowing season. Dongfang Sheng made an even more unexpected move, distributing grain seeds for free, and only needed to return twice the amount of grain seeds in the coming year.

For a while, the refugees scattered around Xuzhou who were still hesitating frantically flocked to Xuzhou. With land and food, it was definitely a good place for these refugees who had no fixed place to live for a long time.

Of course, the premise of all this is that Dongfang Sheng can block Cao Cao's attack.

In the sixth year of Jian'an, Cao Cao stabilized the rear. More than half a year had passed since the Battle of Guandu. During this time, Cao Cao kept gathering refugees, implemented the system of garrisoning land, and attacked other surrounding forces, and finally basically stabilized the rear.

Liu Biao, who rose up at this time, relied on maintaining neutrality, and then developed his own power while Cao Cao and Yuan Shao were busy fighting. Jingzhou has been managed by him as firmly as an iron bucket.

Dongfang Sheng received a secret report from the scout battalion that Cao Cao intends to conquer Xuzhou to prepare for the next battle to destroy Yuan.

Just like the previous battle of Guandu between Cao Cao and Yuan Shao, he must first solve Liu Bei who occupied Xuzhou at that time, otherwise he would not be able to go to the Northern Expedition with peace of mind.

But Dongfang Sheng had already made preparations. The training of the [-] new troops did not stop, and weapons and armor were also transported from Yizhou.

After the end of the spring plowing, Cao Cao finally ordered his men and horses to rush towards Xuzhou in a mighty way.

This time it was still Cao Cao's personal conquest, and Xiahou Dun and Le Jin were the two vanguard generals who attacked Xuzhou this time.

Naturally, Dongfang Sheng didn't want Xuzhou, which had improved just now, to experience war again, so he decided to give Cao Cao a head-on blow and start a decisive battle with Cao Cao outside Xuzhou.

Yangping County is a county under the jurisdiction of Taishan County, which is one of the places closest to Xuzhou.

Dongfang Sheng rushed to Yangping County overnight, and the [-] new troops fought for the first time. Yu Hong volunteered to be the vanguard and took Yangping County quietly.

For Cao Cao, Dongfang Sheng did not intend to use surprise soldiers, because Cao Cao himself is a master of surprise soldiers, and he will definitely be wary of surprise attacks by surprise soldiers.Therefore, Dongfang Sheng intends to adopt a decisive battle. The reason why he won Yangping County is to put the battlefield in Yanzhou.

"Yu Hong, take half of your troops to station outside the city. If Cao Cao's cavalry comes over, I need you to trap them with a square formation." Dongfang Sheng said, pointing to the location on the map.

"Here!"

Yu Hong took the order to leave. During this period of time, he practiced hard in the square formation. In addition, all the relatives and family members of the new army were taken to Xuzhou by Dongfang Sheng. This new army has completely returned.

As soon as Yu Hong left, Dongfang Sheng immediately turned around and said to the remaining three generals: "You three will guard the city with me, and each of you will defend the city wall."

"Here!" The three generals of the new army responded together.

In the end, Dongfang Sheng took a deep breath and said, "If you can't resist, you can let the enemy army enter the Wengcheng. There is a Shenyu Battalion ambushing in the Wengcheng, which will definitely impress the enemy deeply."

"May I die for my lord!" The three generals of the new army said in unison, their voices sonorous and powerful.

Dongfang Sheng nodded. Just at this moment, a spy from the scout battalion in black came in quietly, and the three generals of the new army got up and left immediately.

"What's the matter?" Dongfang Sheng raised his brows and asked. At this time, the scouts from the scout battalion came over, and it was estimated that there must be something serious.

"Cao Cao has a letter to the lord." The spy's voice was very ordinary, and he calmly took out a letter from his arms and handed it to Dongfang Sheng.

"Okay, you go down first." Dongfang Sheng took the letter and said, "Thank you for your hard work."

"Here!" The spy quietly left.

(End of this chapter)