Riding and cutting the imperial pirates of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 578
Zhou Yu didn't expect the girl's entanglement to be so amazing.

After leaving the noodle stall, I planned to go for a stroll, see the people's livelihood under Liu Biao's rule, and buy some seasonal new products, so that I can honor my uncle when I return to Xiapi, but unexpectedly, wherever he goes next, the girl will follow.

Every time he walked into a shop, he saw something that caught his eye, and as soon as he asked the shopkeeper to take it out for a closer look, the girl rushed over immediately, opening her mouth with the same line, "This lady wants it, buy it at a higher price!"

Before he walked half a street away, he looked at the girl's unlucky attendants, their shoulders and arms were covered with things, there were several feet of fine silk, five fine robes, a lamp of sandalwood incense, two hanging flavored salted sea fish, belonging to the land empress. Half-length wooden carvings, and even a basket of chicken cubs, chirping non-stop.
The heavens can learn from it, Zhou Yu, the baby chicken in the nest, just glanced at it casually, and was intercepted by the girl halfway without even stopping.

Such as this kind of rich family, it is impossible to carry more than ten baht and hang five baht, it is heavy and ugly, if you buy it along the way, the money will be gone after a while, you can only use gold and silver, girls are also hard-working, With a single mouth, "As long as you don't sell him any more, I will reward you if you have more."

Zhou Yu, who encountered such a thing for the first time in his life, was a little bit dumbfounded.

Zhou Yu didn't pay much attention to the extravagance shown by the young girl. Despite his low profile, it would not be a problem to buy the entire South Street in Xiangyang.

Although the Lujiang Zhou family has become a bit lonely these years, but the foundation is still there, and Zhou Yi has been a fat job like Luoyang Ling for many years, so how can he leave his son with less family property?
It should be known that in the original history, regardless of Sun Ce or Sun Quan's era, Zhou Yu's internal status in the Jiangdong Group was not simply a subject, but an alliance of princes similar to Han Xin and Yingbo.

The reason why he can have such a detached position is that, on the one hand, when Sun Ce crossed Liyang, Zhou Yu generously borrowed troops and food, and gave him great support; Take over the military and political power, including recruiting and training soldiers.

You can think about it. At that time, the Soochow forces were first established. Naturally, these things could not be all supported by Sun Ce, so in many cases, Zhou Yu paid for them out of his own pocket.

This shows that Zhou Yu or the Lujiang Zhou family has strong financial resources.

But if you have money, it doesn't mean you can make things randomly.
Thinking of this, Zhou Yu looked around. At this time, regardless of the size of the shop, countless shopkeepers were standing in front of the door. The old rooster raised his neck like a crowing, looked at them eagerly, and couldn't help laughing secretly:
These people seem to burn a lot of incense on weekdays, but today they just attracted this virgin girl of good fortune.

The girl still didn't realize that she was being taken advantage of by others, she just called out in a coquettish voice: "Hey, little thief, are you convinced?"

Zhou Yu smiled wryly when he heard the words, and sighed heavily. Just when the girl thought she had the upper hand and poked her nose up to show her pride, Zhou Yu suddenly said, "I am really worried about the girl's future husband."

"If you spend money like this, even if you have mountains of gold and silver, you will lose it sooner or later."

The guards on the side nodded repeatedly, "Young master is right. Although this woman is pretty, but this kind of prodigal, whoever wants to marry, is simply a family misfortune!"

That's what he said, but there was a bit of envy in his voice.

"you"

Seeing the master and servant singing and arranging for themselves, the girl raised her eyebrows immediately, her eyes widened, as if she felt indecent again, she quickly restrained herself, and turned her head away angrily.

While she was turning her head, Zhou Yu glanced at the side alley, and gave the guard a slight wink. The two immediately quickened their pace and took the opportunity to turn in, trying to get rid of each other's entanglement.

In the alley they entered, the guard breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the girl and her party were not keeping up, "If you continue to fight like this, you will get into trouble sooner or later, so it's better to stay out of the way."

As soon as the words came out, Zhou Yu was afraid that Zhou Yu would misunderstand his timidity, so he quickly added, "If I am alone, I will not be afraid, but the young master is a noble person, so there must be no harm."

"That's not true." Zhou Yu smiled when he heard the words, he knew what the guards were talking about.

In ordinary places, if the gentry and country gentry had conflicts with others, they might collide with words at first, and then it might develop into a big fight, causing their servants and soldiers to swarm up, turning a civil fight into a violent fight.

The guard looked like he was from an ordinary family. He might have seen or even experienced such a thing before joining the army, so he was worried.

But Zhou Yu didn't think about it. He realized from the very beginning that the burly men following the girl were not only powerful, but also well-organized in guarding the left and right. They were not ordinary bodyguards, but more like soldiers in the army. The general's personal guard is average.

If these elite soldiers fight fiercely, they will naturally be more domineering than ordinary Haonu soldiers, but they seldom make their own decisions, and they will not act rashly without orders from their masters.

And the one who can really give orders to them is obviously not the girl. They follow behind the girl, mainly because they are cautious and careful to do their guard duties, so there will be no accidents.

While talking, the two turned left and right for a while, and came to another street dominated by rice shops.

Food is the most important thing for the people. In whichever dynasty, the rice industry is the most prosperous, and there is an endless stream of people coming and going. Zhou Yu picked a house at random and walked in slowly. The grain, wheat and miscellaneous grains were stored separately in rice baskets and dustpans. The stuff was quite enough, he inserted his hand into the rice, grabbed a handful and twisted it.

"Yo, young master, just take a look."

The clerk of the rice shop nodded and bowed and said, "This millet is so soft and sticky, it only costs forty dollars a bucket."

"Where's Mimi?"

"This one is cheap, 25 yuan a bucket."

After listening to the staff's introduction, Zhou Yu secretly calculated that the main purpose of Lu Su's mission to Xiangyang was to buy grain, and the second was to borrow grain. Naturally, Shouchun had an estimate, but it was based on the local rice price. Look, the price of rice in Jingzhou is slightly higher than that in Yangzhou.

Ten liters per bucket, ten buckets per dendrobium, tens of thousands of dendrobiums will cost millions of dollars, even if it is replaced with cheaper wheat and rice, the total amount will increase after all.

And a few million dollars is almost a thousand dollars.
Although a thousand pieces of gold is heavy, it may not be worth mentioning in the eyes of Wang Zheng, who conceals the nine counties, but the problem is that Yangzhou's current gap needs not ten thousand dendrobium rice, but several million!
At the beginning of the crossing, when Wang Zheng was under Cao Cao’s command, his salary regulations for the Qingzhou army were five hu for elite soldiers, and three hu for the rest. But always on the limit of not being full.

Based on the daily consumption of an adult man, under normal circumstances, he would consume about eighteen dendrobiums of rice a year, which is about one and a half dendrobiums per month. It is naturally higher for soldiers, at least more than two dendrobiums, and logically three dendrobiums are enough Ah, why do you say you don’t have enough to eat?

Because you can't just eat, can you?
In the last years of the dynasty, grain was hard currency. This is the reason why a lot of military pay among the princes is called grain and pay. The surplus grain can be exchanged for all daily expenses such as meat, vegetables, and even cloth. In this way, three dendrobium in one month is equivalent to a soldier. The words are very reluctant, not to mention that many Qingzhou soldiers still drag their families with their mouths?

In terms of food and salaries, Wang Zheng is naturally more generous than Cao Cao. Even new recruits who have just joined the army have five dendrobium a month. food.

So a rough calculation means that the minimum goal of Lu Su's mission is 400 million hu!
400 Dendrobium will cost a thousand gold, and 40 million Dendrobium will be equivalent to [-] gold!
The point is that money alone is not enough. Such a large-scale export of grain is no longer a simple transaction. If there is no approval from Liu Biao and even the local tycoons, even merchants are willing to sell, and I am afraid that the grain will not be able to leave the territory of Jingzhou.

Even if Liu Biao is settled, I don't know if Wang Zheng can take out the money.
After calculating this number, Zhou Yu gasped instinctively, but even if he realized it, how could it not be enough?

He doesn't know how much money Wang Zheng has, but the other party must be very rich. Not only Zhou Yu knows this, but all insightful people in the world can see it.

Because Wang Zheng has the unique advantages of the Yellow Turban bandits, he can do business without money!
What kind of business can be ruined as quickly as the family?

The other princes are all from aristocratic families, so they should pay attention to eating and eating, but the yellow scarf bandits have no such worries. When Wang Zheng was in Qingzhou, he almost destroyed a hundred clans in one city. Although he restrained himself after coming to Xuzhou, he was actually much more cruel than other princes. .

Zhou Yu, who was born in an aristocratic family, knows how much wealth the families of those noble families started with a hundred years.

So why do other Yellow Turban thieves always have a hard life haha?

Because although Wang Zheng chose the side of aggression like fire and locusts crossing the border, he gave up the inherent means of coercion and gathering of the rebels.

The more money the other Yellow Turban thieves robbed, the more mouths they had to eat, and the leaders of these peasant rebels, after getting money, mostly like their predecessors Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, prefer extravagance and extravagance, Under the effect of top and bottom, it will naturally form a cycle of "three richer and fifth poorer".

Wang Zheng was different, taking the lead in advocating a simple style of work, the key is that he did not choose to coerce the crowd from the beginning of the uprising, and did not start the first large-scale expansion of troops until the occupation of Xuzhou in the second year.

The expansion is fast, the killing is abundant, and the consumption is small. How can there be no surplus money?

How could there be so little surplus money?

Of course, Wang Zheng's foresight and wisdom were praised by everyone, but the main reason why they looked at him differently was not this.

There are also dragons and snakes in the grass, and there are many smart people among the leaders of the peasant uprising army. In fact, they, like Wang Zheng, also know the truth that "the soldiers are more expensive than the many."

Then why is Wang Zheng the only one who has done such a thing so far?

Why don't others choose this way?
Because before you want to be "precious and refined", you have to be "more expensive" first, don't coerce, don't gather crowds, once the officers and soldiers attack, tomorrow's sun may not even be seen!
This is also the most unbelievable point for everyone. Wang Zheng was able to succeed without coercing the crowd, because he had a few thousand troops that could be called a tiger when he attacked Linzi.
But how this elite team came to be, everyone wants to know, but no one knows.

How evil is it?

Is it destiny?

Zhou Yu shook his head, put aside his complicated thoughts, and asked some more quotations. He turned around and went out just now. He had just stepped over the threshold, but his footsteps were paused, but he saw the group of people who had just got rid of them, and they would follow them again.

Seeing him, the girl's eyes lit up, and she ran up with small steps. Looking at the rice in the room, she was startled, hesitated, and still shouted: "How much is a hu? Give me a hundred dendrobium, and seeing the little thieves come out empty-handed, it seems that you can’t afford it, let him die of hunger!"

"Miss, what can I buy for this rice?" The servant girl yelled and persuaded, "Besides, it's so heavy, the servant girl can't handle it."

"Hire some manpower, buy a car, and it will be done."

Before the girl could finish her sentence, she saw Zhou Yu and wanted to slip away again, so Dang even rushed after her.

Zhou Yu entered the city in the afternoon, and wandered around until dusk. When the sun was setting to the west, he occasionally turned his head and looked behind him. He had already followed a large group of people, carrying goods and dragging rice. funny.

The girl seemed to be tired from walking. She sat on the rice cart and let the servant girl rub her ankles. Seeing Zhou Yu turn her head, she immediately looked up at the sky proudly, and after a while she sneaked a glance at the past again.

"My lord, today I have seen what wealth is." The guard glanced at the chasing figure behind him, and sighed with emotion.

"Ha ha."

Zhou Yu smiled and said nothing, this is nonsense, what kind of wealth is it?Don't look at the girl tossing around for a long time, it is estimated that the money spent is at most a dozen gold.

As for Wang Zheng, the business he is going to do right now starts with hundreds of thousands of gold.
"The shepherd of the Yi family state is the real wealth."

He was meaningful and authentic. After thinking about it just now, after winning Shouchun, he collected all Yuan Shu's inheritance, plus the previous harvest. At this time, in terms of wealth, I am afraid that even Yuan Shao of Jizhou may not be comparable to Wang Zheng, right?
Such a rich man can hide his secrets so well, and his style is simple, this is what makes him fearful!

"We probably have to live in Xiangyang for a while. It is not difficult to disclose the identity of the envoy and meet Liu Jingsheng, but the difficulty of this trip is much more difficult." Zhou Yu said: "Go back to the inn first."

Looking around, he joked, "I hope the inn Zijing chose isn't too bad, lest the girl won't frown and say "I bought this" again."

"Haha."

The guard laughed loudly. The more he got along with Zhou Yu, the more he felt that this young master was really an interesting character, completely different from those nerds he had seen before.

Lu Su's envoy was to represent Wang Zheng, so the place to live was naturally not bad, it was a very grand and time-honored inn with carved railings and painted buildings.

Just as Zhou Yu and the two were about to enter the door, they saw the girl still chasing after her, and even rushed towards her with a gust of fragrant wind. She stretched her hands, straightened her waist, and stood in front of her with her small chest.

Zhou Yu was startled for a moment, and then laughed: "Why? You want to buy this too?" This kind of inn in the center is not only expensive, but also has connections behind it.

"You don't need to spend money." The girl pointed to the eaves with a smile, her face overflowing with complacency, "This is my uncle's house!"

Zhou Yu raised his head and looked over with his fingertips. On the sign flag fluttering in the wind, the word "yellow" happened to be painted.

"awesome."

Zhou Yu was convinced, and said to the guard: "Let's not go in, let's go to another place, and you can tell Brother Zijing." The hundreds of missionaries are now living in the inn, so they can't be allowed to move with Zhou Yu, right? It's better to find a place to live alone and avoid this girl.

Immediately, he slightly bowed his hands to the girl, and was about to leave when he heard someone calling, "Your Majesty, please stay."

Zhou Yu turned around and saw that it was the heroic man he had seen on the building boat before, and he was walking out of the hall at this time. Said: "I don't care about your nonsense like this, but Qiao Wan will definitely settle accounts with you in the future."

When he turned to Zhou Yu, his expression slowed down, "There is no reason for merchants to chase away guests. Besides, I and my younger sister are also living here as guests. Don't worry about it. Just stay here, and I will be responsible for the room and board expenses. apologize."

The other party's temperament was quite similar to Sun Ce's, and Zhou Yu had a good impression of him. Hearing this, he smiled slightly, and immediately flicked his sleeves, and responded gracefully: "I'm serious, my Lujiang Zhou Yu, didn't you ask for advice?"

Hearing Zhou Yu's name, the man was immediately moved: "So it's Jiang Zuo Zhou Lang, no wonder he has such a demeanor."

"I'm Tai Shici in Xiadonglai."

(End of this chapter)