Wei and Jin cooks

In Luoyang, only the Zhao family army led by Zhao Hanzhang, the Nanyang army of Zhao Erlang, and the Xiliang army of Bei Gongchun were left.

Zhao Hanzhang saw that Zhao Erlang was having fun here, so he simply asked Wang Zhen, who stayed in Nanyang Kingdom, to temporarily take over the responsibility of the county guard, and then asked Zhao Erlang to start selecting his own elite soldiers.

"You pick a thousand people first, you have to train these thousand people every day, and the rest guard Xin'an."

Zhao Erlang: "Where is Xin'an?"

"Xin'an is not far from Luoyang. It is a small county. I have asked, but there is no county magistrate there. I will send a county magistrate there. As for you, you will station troops in Xin'an, and you can help Gucheng and Luoyang." Zhao Hanzhang He waved to him and told him to look at the map, "Chen Wu's beggar army is here. Beigongchun is stationed in Luoyang. If the Huns want to go south, they must pass through Gucheng. If the Nanyang King of Xianbei and Chang'an comes, they must pass through Xin'an County. , both of you are Bei Gongjun’s vanguard.”

"And Luoyang is the gateway to the Central Plains. If the Xianbei and the Xiongnu go south and bypass Luoyang, the battle line will be stretched. They will not have enough food and grass, and they are likely to be cut off by Luoyang, and we will shut them down and beat them." The more Zhao Hanzhang said, the more he felt. It would be best for Beigong Chun to guard Luoyang.

Her eyes were bright, "Last year Liu Yuan bypassed Luoyang to attack Yuzhou. If Bei Gongchun had been guarding Luoyang, Liu Yuan would have been surrounded and killed by us in Yuzhou, or he would have had no choice but to escape eastward, to Yanzhou and return via Jizhou. "

It's a pity that the one guarding the city was the King of Donghai. He just sat and waited for Liu Yuan to confront Gou Xi, thus wasting such a good opportunity to expel the Xiongnu.

Zhao Hanzhang just felt sorry for a moment, and then returned to the topic, "After you go to Xin'an, you not only have to train troops, but also learn to station troops. Xie Shi will still follow you. If you don't understand, just ask the teacher for advice. Do you understand?"

Zhao Erlang nodded, "Sister, I know how to station troops, that is, farm. I also worked with them in Xiping when I was in Xiping. I know how to plant and harvest wheat."

Zhao Hanzhang glanced at him approvingly, "This time farming is not only about farming, but also about building roads."

Thinking of the situation on the official road back to Luoyang via Gucheng this time, Zhao Hanzhang looked disgusted, "It's full of potholes and dust. Fortunately, we only have horses and ox-carts, otherwise the carriage would have to overturn if it were faster."

Let’s not talk about anything else. Let’s build the road first.

She said: "The official road from Xin'an to Luoyang will be left to your Nanyang soldiers to repair."

Zhao Erlang didn't know the danger and agreed immediately.

When Xie Shi knew it, it was already too late. He looked at Zhao Erlang silently and asked, "Didn't Erlang ask the envoy for anything?"

"What do you want?"

"I need money!" Xie Shi said, "Don't you need money to build the road?"

Zhao Erlang said straightforwardly: "My sister has no money. Tinghe started to mix wheat bran into the pancakes for dinner today, and the baked pancakes are not very tasty."

"..." Xie Shi said tiredly: "We need money to build roads!"

Zhao Erlang waved his hand nonchalantly and said, "I have money, use mine."

He turned to Zhao Cai and said, "Go get my money box."

Zhao Cai glanced at Xie Shi and turned around to get it, but instead of handing it to Xie Shi, he took it in his arms and opened it for Xie Shi to see.

Xie Shi saw the gold and silver ingots inside mixed with some silver ingots and copper coins, and knew that this was his own pocket money.

Xie Shi waved his hand and told Zhao Cai to put it away, and asked: "Erlang, where are you with so many trophies?"

Not to mention houses and shops, he also robbed, oh, he collected a lot of pearls, gems, gold and silver utensils and the like.

Zhao Erlang said: "I gave it all to Sister."

Xie Shi: "...That's all, I'll go ask for the money."

Zhao Hanzhang finally sat at the table, holding an abacus and calculating against the ledger.

Fu Tinghan, who was reviewing official documents at the side, heard the abacus sound getting quieter and sparse, so he raised his head and glanced at her, "Is the gap big?"

Zhao Hanzhang took the account book and sighed, "The main reason is that there are too many people to support. I don't know whether it's a blessing or a misfortune. If Fan Ying and the others bring back 200,000 people, I probably won't be able to feed them."

One hundred thousand people is exactly her limit, and she still has to work hard to maintain it.

Fu Tinghan flipped through it, pulled out a few pieces of paper and handed them over, "This is from Chen County. You may be happier after reading it."

Zhao Hanzhang reached out and took it. On it was the armament list that Zhao Ming had given him. Yuzhou was operating normally, and both iron mines were producing, so at least it could supply armaments.

"Replace the broken and unusable weapons among the generals and give them to the blacksmith to be smelted and made into farm tools." Zhao Hanzhang folded these pieces of paper and pasted them into the account book with records, then held his chin and sighed.

Fu Tinghan took the time to look up at her and asked, "What's wrong?"

"I was thinking about money," she said. "I was doing some calculations and thinking about where to get the money, and then I found that there were only three places where I could get the money."

Fu Tinghan raised his eyebrows.

Zhao Hanzhang said: "The first is the Liangjiang area, which has always been relatively stable and is a land of plenty. I bought a lot of food from there last time; the second is the Jiangnan area, which is a quiet corner. I have been talking about the food and cloth there for a long time."

When Fu Tinghan saw her stop, he cheered and asked, "Where's the third place?"

Zhao Hanzhang moved his eyebrows towards the north, "As for the Xiongnu and Xianbei, how many good things have Liu Yuan and others collected from the Central Plains over the years? The nobles in Liangjiang and Jiangnan have always admired the nobles of the Central Plains families. If they can buy those things back , go to the south, I don’t know how much food and cloth I can get back.”

Glass is very profitable, so Fu Tinghan has made a large amount of glass in the past two years in order to support the expenses of Zhao Hanzhang's army.

It can be said that the most profitable industry under Zhao Hanzhang's name is the glass shop. Whether they are businessmen, nobles, or even ordinary people, it seems difficult to resist the transparent and exquisite glass products.

Zhao Hanzhang said: "I think it would be difficult for the Huns and Xianbei people to resist the temptation of colored glaze."

Fu Tinghan: "Aside from money, what you need most is horses."

"Yes," Zhao Hanzhang patted the table and said, "It's just a horse! Unfortunately, the Huns and Xianbei are very wary of us and hardly sell stallions to the Han people."

Every time I buy a horse, what I buy is either a castrated one or a low-quality stallion that I spent a lot of money to buy.

Zhao Hanzhang was afraid that he would be matched with a bunch of inferior horses.

Every time she urged the horse farm to produce horses, Wei Ma Tou would ask her to stall the horses, but she was worried to death.

Fu Tinghan: "Didn't you ask Wu Erlang to follow the Bingzhou envoy to Jinyang?"

Zhao Hanzhang said: "It's not enough to rely on him alone. I want to cultivate a smuggling gang that can poach me."

Fu Tinghan paused for a moment before realizing what she meant, "You mean, you want someone who, in the eyes of the other party, has not been discovered by you, poaches you, takes advantage of your interests, and cooperates with the other party?"

Zhao Hanzhang nodded.

Fu Tinghan's back stiffened and he looked into her eyes, "Who?"

Zhao Hanzhang looked at him.

Fu Tinghan: "...Why me?"

"There is no need for you to come forward. I just need to use your name and show off occasionally. Naturally, the people below will do these things."

Fu Tinghan: "For example?"

"For example, Fu An." Is there anyone who can express Fu Tinghan's identity better than Fu An?

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