Traveling through history leaving a name

Chapter 68
Cao Cao has decided to attack Hanzhong and seize the land of Sichuan and Shu. However, if he wants to attack Hanzhong, he must pass through Guanzhong.

Although Guanzhong is nominally the territory of the imperial court, it is actually the sphere of influence of warlords such as Ma Chao and Han Sui.

Cao Cao ordered Zhong Yao to send troops to attack Zhang Lu in Hanzhong. However, Ma Chao and others thought that Cao Cao was going to attack Guanzhong, so they united with more than a dozen warlords in Guanzhong and raised an army of 10,000+ to rebel, which immediately broke Cao Cao's plan to attack Hanzhong.

Faced with such a situation, Cao Cao decided to lead his troops to crusade against Guanzhong himself.

Under such circumstances, Cao Cao ordered the Yuyang Arsenal to cast dozens of artillery pieces, tens of thousands of horse gear, countless strong bows and crossbows, weapons and armor, kettles of rations, clothing, tents, and so on.

With tens of thousands of workers working overtime in countless workshops in Youzhou, these weapons were finally delivered in June.

This large military purchase has fed all walks of life in Yuyang, such as steel, timber, fur, textiles, and so on.

The reason why Cao Cao used a large amount of military supplies to purchase in Youzhou is that the large-scale industrial manufacturing in Youzhou is several times cheaper than manual work.

In addition, only Youzhou can produce so many military supplies for Cao Cao in a short period of time.

It can be seen that Cao Cao attaches great importance to Youzhou from the fact that Cao Cao deployed tens of thousands of troops to station in Youzhou.

Fortunately, Zhang Qingfeng did not intend to rebel from the beginning to the end, otherwise, with Youzhou's industrialization and geographical location, he had trained a group of troops to compete with Cao Cao in a short time before Cao Cao came to Youzhou.

In July, Cao Cao led an army to Luoyang, preparing to crusade against Ma Chao and others who rebelled in Guanzhong.

Among the accompanying teams, there is an army of more than 5000 people. They are well-equipped and prohibitive.

They were the [-] Youzhou Volunteer Army led by Yue Fei, and the new cavalry that Cao Cao selected [-] cavalry to join.

Cao Cao did not change the name of this 5000-strong cavalry, but still used Yue Fei's banner of the Volunteer Army.

"Pengju, is this your first time to go out so far away? Luoyang is just ahead. I will take you to see it when the time comes." Cao Cao said to Yue Fei on his horse.

"Yes Prime Minister, to tell you the truth, if I hadn't followed you, I might not have been out of Youzhou." Yue Fei said respectfully.

As Cao Cao's central army, Yue Fei naturally had to march with Cao Cao.

After Cao Cao watched Yue Fei's army drill in Junping, he valued Yue Fei very much.

Later, Yue Fei went to Yecheng with him. After nearly a year of observation, Cao Cao found that Yue Fei was indeed a very talented person, and he was humble, unlike many warriors who were rude and unreasonable.

In Cao Cao's current army, Yue Fei alone can't beat any general, but in terms of the combat effectiveness of the entire army, Yue Fei's army is definitely one of the best.

Soon, Cao Cao's army came to station outside Luoyang City, and Cao Cao entered Luoyang City with a group of civil servants and generals.

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Just when Cao Cao came to Luoyang, a conspiracy was taking place in Wu, south of the Yangtze River.

In 211 AD, Sun Quan moved his capital to Moling.The stone used to build the city was later changed to Jianye, which is also Jinling and Nanjing in later generations.

Three sailing galen ships from Youzhou followed the coastline from north to south and arrived at the mouth of the Yangtze River.

This place belongs to Wu County, and you can go to Jianye if you go west along the Yangtze River, and you can go to Yuhang if you go south.

However, when the fleet arrived at the port in Lou County, Wu County, it stopped.

Here is the first port of trade between Youzhou and southern merchants.

"The boat from Youzhou is coming, notify the navy and let them dispatch."

In the port of Lou County, on a two-story tea house, a middle-aged man gave instructions to a young man as he watched the huge sea-going ship slowly approaching the shore.

"Yes, this subordinate will notify Lord Wei Wen."

Soon, the young man left the teahouse, and left the port at high speed.

An hour later, the young man came to a water army camp.

Taking out the token, the young man was taken to the barracks of the navy general by several navy soldiers, and met the navy general Wei Wen.

"Master Wei, the ship from Youzhou has arrived. Master Zhuge asked me to inform you to act immediately." The young man saluted Wei Wen.

"Haha, well, it's finally here." Hearing what the young man said, Wei Wen laughed loudly.

"Give me the order, and the whole army will set out immediately." Wei Wenchao ordered the guards beside him.

Soon, as the order was issued, the camp of the Soochow Navy immediately became lively.

Not long after, dozens of warships of the Soochow Navy left the naval camp and slowly headed towards the lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

At the port of Lou County at this time, a Galen ship was docked at the port, while the other two were on alert not far away.

At this time, countless people were busy on the dock, and boxes of goods were carried or lifted off the ship by dock workers.

At the same time, countless copper, gold, silver or silk were also transported onto the ship in boxes by countless workers.

"Brother, some merchants in Wujun said that they have prepared a banquet and invited us to disembark for a drink. Look..."

"No, you can't get off the boat. Have you forgotten what the teacher warned you when you came here? We and Sun Quan are hostile forces, and we cannot relax at all on their territory." Zheng Chenggong said to his junior brother Zhang Liang.

"Okay then, I'll let someone reject it." Zhang Liang said rather unwillingly.

After taking the boat for many days, Zhang Liang originally wanted to go ashore and relax, but now it seems that this is not possible.

"Zhang Liang, how much cargo have they prepared this time?" Zheng Chenggong asked Zhang Liang on the deck.

After hearing Zheng Chenggong's words, Zhang Liang took out a notebook, looked at it and said: "For this transaction, they have prepared three hundred tons of copper, three hundred catties of gold, one thousand eight hundred catties of silver, five thousand pieces of silk, and eight thousand catties of saltpeter." , seven thousand kilograms of sulfur, and all kinds of miscellaneous things.”

"That's not bad." Hearing Zhang Liang's words, Zheng Chenggong nodded. This transaction should be able to fill a ship.

The remaining two cargoes will be sent south to ports such as Yuhang and Yuyao.

"Calculate, how much can you earn from this transaction?" Zheng Chenggong asked again.

"In general, this shipment can earn about 20 million ([-] guan)." Zhang Liang said: "After we sell the silk and other goods back to Youzhou, we can earn another [-] million or so."

"Tsk tsk, this is really a huge profit."

Hearing Zhang Liang's words, Zheng Chenggong couldn't help admiring even though he had been here several times.

Before coming this time, he prepared three shipments worth almost [-] million.

Most of these goods are high-end luxury goods such as fine porcelain, glassware, and glass mirrors.

These goods are in short supply in Youzhou, and demand exceeds supply. A porcelain bowl only costs a few dozen cents in Youzhou, but when shipped to the south, it can be sold for at least two hundred cents.

The most lucrative thing is the glazed mirror. A piece of glazed mirror the size of a palm has a cost price of hundreds of Wen in Youzhou, and a market price of thousands of Wen. After being transported to Sun Quan’s territory in the south, it will cost at least tens of thousands. The mirror is more to 10,000+.

Of course, in addition to these, there are pendulums, soap, iron pots, cotton cloth, etc., etc., and these commodities can be sold for several times the price when shipped to the south.

This time, Zheng Chenggong loaded these goods into three ships, and the cost of each ship was about 3000 million.

A cargo of 3000 million yuan can be sold here for more than 2 million yuan, which has been multiplied several times, and the profit is hundreds of percent. This is definitely a huge profit.

If you transport the goods here, such as silk, you can make a lot of money.

Calculated, a shipment of goods with a cost of 3000 million yuan can earn more than [-] million yuan in one trip.

If the three shipments were sold later, they could earn close to one billion yuan, which was like stealing money.

This is why Zhang Qingfeng decided to pay for the railway construction himself.

"I heard that Deng Shichang was sent by the teacher to Fusang Island in the east to look for silver mines. I don't know why the teacher wants so much silver?" Zhang Liang said to Zheng Chenggong on the deck of the Galen ship.

"It should be for the issuance of banknotes. The teacher said that the value of copper is too low and is not suitable to be linked to banknotes. Only more precious gold and silver are more suitable." Zheng Chenggong explained.

bang bang bang!
Suddenly, a gong sounded from the mast.

"Not good, there is a situation." Zhang Liang exclaimed.

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