Chapter 63: What Happened During This Time

This kind of pay for work method completely dispelled the worries of the refugees. The standard of Taishan's wages is settled every day, never in arrears, and as many people as that came can get to eat. Anyway, Chen Xi has already become familiar, as long as the money is there, he can keep playing forever as long as Taishan runs.

And in a short period of time, Chen Xi was not short of money and food. The stuff obtained from the defeating bandits was sold to Xuzhou, and then the food was transferred from Xuzhou. Xuzhou had a lot of food, and Tao Qian was willing to support Liu Bei. Naturally, he was willing to give food to Chen Xi. Suppressing bandits and buying grain, Chen Xi circulated over a million stones of grain in his hands.

It has to be said that Kong Rong's reputation and Tao Qian's richness are supporting Liu Bei. With this strong support, Liu Bei is now much better than Cao Cao. At least now, Taishan County is full of busy scenes, and even a kind of false prosperity. At first glance, there is a lot of traffic and prosperity, while Cao Cao is still wandering...

This is a false look, because at this time, once Chen Xi take out the food input, the entire Taishan will enter a state of depression, or even collapse quickly. But as long as it persists for a few months to September, after the millet matures, Chen Xi won't have any problems even if he take out the food input.

Chen Xi now has to wait for these three months. In spring, they have basically cultivated all the areas that can be cultivated in Taishan with Chen Xi's seeds and a small amount of cattle. Anyway, summer is just a hundred days, so just carry it over. This will be a foundation for future plans, so during this period of time, Chen Xi is ready, whoever dares to make trouble will die!

In July of 191 AD, Yuan Shao taken over Jizhou, Cao Cao was about to establish his foothold in East County. Gongsun Zan had not yet taken all of Youzhou, and Liu Yan had just blocked Yizhou from being dominated. This point of time is consolidating the foundation for everyone, no one will jump out to provoke, and it is the last time for development.

In 192 and 193 AD, these two years can be regarded as the last opportunities for development. From 194 AD, natural disasters have started. Severe droughts, locust plagues, plagues, and various natural disasters have continued to wreak havoc. It's just the Emperor Xian of Han in Chang'an, which suffers from earthquakes in 192 and 193 AD.

Taking advantage of this last opportunity, Chen Xi is ready to buy food everywhere, and it is estimated that there will be no such opportunity in the future. If he has enough food for several years at this time, he will not be defeated like the Taishan ruler Ying Shao in history. In the end, he didn't get any benefits from Qingzhou yellow turban because of the grain. Food is king in this era!

Taking advantage of the last two harvest years to consolidate money and food, when the locust plagues and droughts occur, you can take advantage of the natural disasters to swallow all the Qingzhou yellow turbans. This is the most realistic and feasible plan. In short, what they have to do in the next two years is to build high walls and accumulate food.

Zang Ba had already surrendered. Zhang Fei saw that there were not many good generals on his side, and Zang Ba should have seen it, but he didn't say anything. As for Hua Xiong, he calmly accepted Zang Ba as his lieutenant. Even though he defeated Zang Ba, but he knew what was going on with his own troops, and it seemed that he was not Zang Ba's opponent.

Zang Ba was very happy that Hua Xiong was willing to accept him as a lieutenant. Although he was seriously injured, he still gritted his teeth and rode on his horse. He patted his chest and said that he still has a little reputation in Taishan. He would like to talk to Chang Ji, Sun Guan, Wu Dun, and Yin Li, these four people.

Although Hua Xiong said that his brain was not very sensitive, he felt that he should let Zang Ba give it a try, so Zang Ba was grateful that he sent a few people with him to the cottage of Sun Guan.

Sure enough, Zang Ba is also a man of loyalty. He did not take this opportunity to re-start the battle against Hua Xiong. Instead, because of Hua Xiong's loyalty and trust in him, he worked so hard to capture all of the four biggest bandit leaders in Taishan. And Sun Guan was bound in front of Chen Xi shortly afterwards.

The food robbing incident was finally over, and the Zhen family's left. Chen Xi didn't bother to take care of it. Anyway, he couldn't get along with the Zhen family anymore.

In September, when Taishan was stable, Chen Xi finally had a lot of time to splurge, and he also had some people he wanted to recruit. Of course, the advisers he had previously envisioned were basically not recruited. Basically, these guys are not optimistic about Liu Bei. Zhang Zhao, Zhang Hong, and Gu Yong, who came from a family, also ridiculed Liu Bei's subordinates who came to recruit them.

In the end, Chen Xi also extinguished the idea of ​​continuing to recruit the talented people. Anyway, he could do things like accumulating grain. If there was anything, he could drink a few more cups of tea every day at most, and if there was not anything, he would just drink a few cups less. It did not have too much influence.

As for the Zhen family who originally planned to invest in Liu Bei, after Yuan Shao took over Jizhou, they quietly reduced their investment in Taishan. It can be say that in the eyes of the Zhen family, Liu Bei, a Han family member who has been certified by the Han family, does not have Yuan Shao, the fourth warlord of the Yuan family, potentials.

Chen Xi had already estimated these things, and didn't take it to heart. The courage and vision of the future will always be necessary for a good businessman. He never thought that because of his arrival, he could make random arrangements and the Zhen family would help him. These are simply impossible to achieve.

There are bound to be inextricably relationship between the Zhen family in Jizhou and Yuan Shao, who is expected to dominate the world. Family management will naturally not allow the whole family to be overwhelm because of one person's personal sentiments. The Zhen family seems to be just a wealthy businessman, but Chen Xi knows a very interesting thing. Can the Zhen family, who inherited an official position of two thousand stones, be just a wealthy businessman?

The Yuan family has the fourth warlords and the third warlords. In the Three Kingdoms era when the aristocratic family holds power, could they let their favorite son marry Zhen Mi because of the fact that this woman has the status of Feng Yi in the world? Are you kidding me? What if the wealth of the family is tens of millions, the entire Hebei belongs to the Yuan family, and it has become a trend to control the world. What is a wealthy businessman? How much do you want? What a joke!

Chen Xi has nothing to say about the choice of the Zhen family, now is not the time to calculate these things, and even if Yuan Shao is really cleaned up late, he can't level the Zhen family. At most, he can change the family owner or something. Provoke the family before he has absolute strength is unwise. Of course, if Liu Bei is really upset, there is nothing he can do.

The withdrawal of the Zhen family has completely annoyed Liu Bei, who was recently losing face. After all, the recruitment of celebrities was not successful, and was ridiculed instead. Now even the wealthy businessmen dare to slap their faces, Liu Bei should be annoyed.

Fortunately, after Chen Xi clarified the stakes, Liu Bei did not completely turn his face with the Zhen family. It was just that looking at Liu Bei's angry expression. It is estimated they would never be good when Zhen's family fall into Liu Bei's hands. This family is unlucky.

As a last resort, Chen Xi had to talk to Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping, and assigned the Jizhou business to them. Indicating that they should quickly squeeze the Zhen family's salt and horse business outside the Great Wall, and let the Zhen family apologize quickly to Liu Bei. If this anger had been brewing for three to five years, after Chen Xi took Qingzhou, and stomped Yuan Shao, the Hebei family might pull the Zhen family down.