The Three Kingdoms become stronger when they get treasures

Chapter 238 Cao Cao Comes Together Again

Of course, in the future, when all printing workshops in Jingzhou print new books, they must go to the printing office for record and the relevant personnel of the printing office will review the content. After obtaining permission, the printing office will issue a publication number, otherwise it will be regarded as Illegal printing of books.Anyone who prints books illegally will have their workshops shut down, all equipment confiscated, and fined. If the circumstances are serious, they will be severely punished.

Zhang Wu did this to prevent some people from randomly printing inappropriate books for sale in order to make money. The cultural market is very important and must be regulated.

Since then, the book business has entered a period of small profits and high sales. Due to the greatly increased output of white paper, the number of books printed by major families has increased, and prices have been reduced in order to make money.

In this way, ordinary people can afford it, and at this point, Zhang Wu's original goal has been achieved.

Of course, the Metropolitan Government is still the most profitable, because first of all, the most critical material for printing books is still in the hands of Zhang Wu, which is a monopoly business; secondly, although the [-]% tax is not as lucrative as the previous [-]%, the sales Big, but also the last wave of harvest.

The money earned has been continuously transported to Jingzhou as food, cloth, animal skins, iron materials, etc., and a large amount of kerosene, gunpowder, gas bombs, etc. have been hoarded, and then warships, Large war machines, etc. were built.

Now Jingzhou is running at full speed, constantly improving its strength, and preparing for the upcoming battle.

After Liu Bei's two daughters married to the Governor's Mansion, because they were close to their natal families, they often went back to Xiangyang Taishou Mansion to visit their father and two mothers.

Although this era also pays attention to some etiquette, but after all, it is a chaotic world, and even survival is a problem, so who cares about so many etiquette.Originally, according to the rules of this era, if a married woman wants to return to her natal family, she must first be called by her natal family, and then she must obtain the consent of her husband's family.

But Zhang Wu made a rule for his family that as long as his consent was obtained, the wives could leave the house at any time, and they could go back to their natal home to visit at any time.

Zhang Wu's explanation is that a daughter is also a child of his parents, and it is difficult to raise an adult, but he ends up marrying into someone else's family. Of course, the parents will miss their children.Of course, children will miss their parents, so allowing married daughters to visit their natal families often is also a manifestation of my filial piety in governing the country.

Zhang Wu is now the idol of scholars all over the world, and what he said still has a certain authority. Of course, many scholars will start to quote classics and classics to demonstrate what the governor said.

Mrs. Mi and Mrs. Gan were also very happy to see their daughters often. Knowing from their daughters that Zhang Wu loved them very much, the two wives were also relieved, and Liu Bei was even more relieved when he saw this.

Little Adou is two and a half years old. Because he has lived a good life since he was a child and has never experienced homelessness, he is also very lively and active, running around all day.

Liu Bei's main energy is now on A Dou, but he also feels that his current life is very comfortable.

And Liu Bei's old rival, Cao Cao, the prime minister of the Han Dynasty, finally couldn't bear it anymore.

In the autumn of the tenth year of Jian'an, Cao Cao sent 40 troops to Xudu, and personally led a group of counselors and generals to conquer Jingzhou again.

In order to prevent Sun Quan from Jiangdong from attacking Hefei again, Cao Cao appointed Cao Ren as the general who conquered the south, and led Li Dian and Le Jin to garrison Hefei.

In the previous two attacks on Jingzhou, in fact, Cao Cao didn't pay attention to Zhang Wu at all, but compared with the road of attacking Hanzhong first, then taking Xichuan, and then going downstream to attack Jingzhou and Jiangdong, Cao Cao felt that taking Jingzhou first was more important. It's faster, maybe you can complete the great cause of unifying the world in your lifetime.

In Cao Cao's mind, he could even destroy the invincible Lu Bu and the Yuan family of the fourth generation and third prince. Now it is not easy for so many troops to conquer a general who was born as a thief.What Cao Cao considered the most was how to destroy Jiangdong after taking Jingzhou.

But the facts hit Cao Cao twice in a row, and these two blows directly woke Cao Cao up, making him understand that there are other heroes besides him in this world.

That Zhang Wu was indeed very difficult to deal with. I didn't expect that even though Lu Bu died, a more ruthless one would pop up in this world, even braver than Lu Bu back then.

It would be fine if Zhang Wu was only strong in force. The confrontation between the two armies cannot be won by generals alone, but Zhang Wu not only has many brave generals under his command, but also two top advisers, Pang Tong and Xu Shu.The subsequent wars also proved that these two great counselors were no worse than his subordinates Xun You, Cheng Yu and others.

Up to now, by marrying Liu Bei's daughter, Zhang Wu has gained the effectiveness of Liu Bei's servants and generals. Coupled with the huge wealth and great prestige Zhang Wu gained through selling books, he is already powerful.

Therefore, it is necessary to attack Jingzhou. Otherwise, if Zhang Wu is allowed to develop further, we still don’t know how huge his power will be. We must eliminate him in one fell swoop while we still have a great advantage. .

Originally Cao Cao was still worrying about how to cross the Han River, but he didn’t expect Zhang Wu to come up with an iron chain boat. Although you Zhang Wu repelled the Jiangdong navy with the iron chain boat, you never thought that others would imitate it ?

Cao Cao felt that the iron chain boat was tailor-made for him, and it solved the shortcoming of not having a navy for him at once. This Wuzhen is really self-defeating!
It took Cao Jun's efforts to transport the disassembled warships to Wancheng one after another, and then assembled them into iron-locked ships on the Feishui, and then rushed down the river to Fancheng.

Xiahou Dun, who was stationed in Fancheng, finally waited for Cao Cao's army to come. He was also worried this year, for fear that Zhang Wu would come to take back Fancheng.Although he is confident that he can rely on the defenders in the city to persist until the reinforcements sent by the prime minister, but that Zhang Wu is brave and invincible and scheming, what if he comes up with some ideas.

Fortunately, this year, Zhang Wu only sent water troops to harass from time to time, but he never attacked by force. It is estimated that Zhang Wu also knew that the Jingzhou army was not good at land warfare and siege. He was afraid of heavy losses, so he did not dare to attack the city easily.

This time the prime minister personally led the army, Xiahoudun finally breathed a sigh of relief, and then reported to Cao Cao the information he had collected in the past year, including the current approximate number of Jingzhou army and the generals in command.

Cao Jun first built a large water village on the north bank of the Han River, and deployed many soldiers to guard it, and then drove all the warships into the water village, allowing the soldiers to continue boarding and training.Due to the rush to attack Jingzhou, many soldiers did not have time to board the ship to adapt.

Cao Cao's iron chain boats were even bigger than those of the Jingzhou navy. It was like a small island on the river, and the soldiers would no longer be afraid of the wind and waves when they stood on it.Moreover, Cao Jun's iron chain ship also has a female wall, which can resist the arrows shot by the enemy, just like a city wall.

This iron chain ship can be used not only as a warship, but also as a transport ship. A large iron chain ship can hold about [-] soldiers, and it can also run horses on it.Cao Jun also imitated the practice of the Jingzhou Navy and installed catapults on the ship, and even more large crossbow carts.

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