Chapter 229 Decided to go to Luoyang for a stroll

"Meet the governor of Yangzhou."

"Jingsheng, you are too polite."

The corner of Liu Biao's mouth twitched. Jin Mao really didn't know what politeness was.

After all, he was a governor, yet he addressed him by his name with such disrespect!

It's really hateful!

On the surface, Liu Biao greeted him with a smile: "What brings you here today, Governor of Yangzhou?"

Jin Mao rode on his warhorse, looking down from a high vantage point but did not dismount. Instead, he looked around at the camp where Liu Biao's troops were stationed.

Without any mountain or water, it's just like a beginner setting up camp randomly. If any captain under Jin Mao dares to do this, just get out!

"Jingsheng." Jin Mao looked at Liu Biao who raised his head slightly and said unhappily, "I just came to ask you something."

Liu Biao was over eight feet tall (195 cm), and the warhorse Jin Mao was riding was also quite tall, but not much taller than him, which was why he was reluctant to dismount.

Because he is too short!

Over seven feet and five inches (175 cm), a head shorter than Liu Biao!

"Please speak, Governor."

Liu Biao really disliked Jin Mao's style of starting a war over trivial matters.

But who can blame him for having a stronger fist? So we have to bow our heads.

"Do you know Dongguan?"

Liu Biao nodded and said, "I know."

"Then tell me about Dongguan."

Jin Mao began to ask questions, repeating the questions he had asked Feng Fang.

Liu Biao answered all of them one by one. He spoke directly about what he knew, and directly stated the source of what he didn't know or heard from others.

Now, Jinmao wanted Luoyang even more strongly.

That’s an entire national library!
The collection has over 30,000 books!
If we assume that 500 words are written on each bamboo slip, that would be a super literary treasure trove of 15 million words!
These are all classical Chinese. If translated into vernacular Chinese, the length would have to be several times higher.

In the future, when Dong Zhuo burns Luoyang, only one in ten of these books will remain. It would be better for them to be given to Jin Mao.

With the papermaking and movable type printing technologies in his hands, not to mention the long term, they would definitely advance the course of history by hundreds of years and reach the level of the prosperous Tang Dynasty.

When he thought of that scene, Jin Mao couldn't help but get excited.

The powerful Han Dynasty was strong enough. If the prosperous Tang Dynasty civilization was used to fight the barbarians of the Eastern Han Dynasty, it would really be a dimensionality reduction attack.

Unifying the Eurasian continent is not a dream!

Liu Biao noticed that Jin Mao was abnormal, and he couldn't help but feel nervous: "You bastard, why don't you let me go!"

Even though he had surrendered, they still wanted to kill him.

Liu Biao mistakenly believed that Jin Mao wanted to kill him, so he tried to find out the truth in a roundabout way.

"Why is the governor angry?"

"But is there anything I haven't done well enough?"

People have to bow their heads under the roof.

Liu Biao can be said to have taken the ability to bend and stretch to the extreme.

Cai Mao, Kuai Yue, Kuai Liang and other scholars standing behind Liu Biao could not help but feel sad.

This is the person they have chosen, so cowardly.

Only Kuai Yue had different ideas in his mind. The entire Kuai family moved to Jiangling County, and some even went to Jianye.

On the surface, the Kuai family served as hostages for Liu Biao and fulfilled their duties as subjects.

In fact, Kuai Yue had his own plans.

When Jin Mao heard Liu Biao's question, he was stunned and didn't react.

But Jin Mao's mischievous instinct drove him to play a trick on Liu Biao, saying, "It's not that you didn't do a good job!"

"We agreed to pay tribute to Nanyang County with half of its products, but I haven't seen even a single grain of ore yet!"

Liu Biao cursed in his heart, who the hell could produce something just by occupying a territory?
Doesn’t it take time to mine and smelt?

On the surface, Liu Biao remained calm and did things to the extreme.

"Don't worry, Governor. It will take at least one month, or at most three months. I guarantee with my life that I will accomplish what I promised you!"

I never thought that I could earn this kind of income just by cheating.

Jin Mao was overjoyed: "Okay!"

"I'm waiting for good news from Jingsheng!"

After that, Jin Mao mounted his horse with the help of his personal guards and rode away, leaving Liu Biao in a daze.

At this time, how could Liu Biao not realize the problem?

It was all just his wishful thinking. No one ever thought of killing him.

"Every tree and grass is an enemy, every tree and grass is an enemy!"

Liu Biao felt extremely regretful, but he had already made the promise and he had to fulfill it.

Otherwise, it would be a real disaster.

"Different Dimensions, Degui."

Liu Biao looked at his capable generals Cai Mao and Kuai Yue and said, "I'll have to ask you to take care of Nanyang's affairs."

Cai Mao nodded reluctantly. If he knew that Jin Mao was going to take Feng Lu as his concubine, he would rather give the role of brother-in-law to Jin Mao!
On the contrary, Kuai Yue agreed very readily and asked, "What if Nanyang's production exceeds the half-year quota, or even reaches the one-year quota?"

Liu Biao didn't think much about it and waved his hand and said, "Give it to him! Give it all to him!"

He entered the camp without looking back.

With Liu Biao's affirmation, Kuai Yue became full of motivation.

...

It was already night when he returned to Xiangyang City from Liu Biao.

Jin Mao did not return home immediately, but came to Feng's house and changed the date of taking a concubine.

His original intention was to postpone it because he was about to organize his troops and march north to Luoyang.

But Feng Fang thought that Jin Mao was going to go back on his word, so he sent Feng Lu into the mansion that night and made it clear that it didn't matter whether the banquet was held or not.

Instead, Jin Mao was at a loss as to what to do, and he returned with Feng Lu in a daze.

When everyone in the temporary governor's mansion learned that Jin Mao had returned, they heated up the prepared meals and served them.

Dian Wei has always eaten and lived with Jin Mao. Although they did not sleep on the same couch, this relationship was enough to make other generals envious.

For some reason today, Dian Wei felt very uneasy while eating.

Jinmao kept ordering him around, asking him to take this and that.

Dian Wei couldn't understand why his lord usually didn't care about these rare things today.

However, every time Dian Wei came back, he would always see his lord getting closer and closer to that woman, and the last time they even hugged each other.

To be honest, Dian Wei doesn't like slim women like Feng Lu. He likes plump ones with big breasts and big buttocks, who are good at giving birth!
Feng Lu does have big breasts and buttocks, but they do not meet Dian Wei's minimum standards.

It’s just like people who like CD have similar feelings when watching A.

Dian Wei is not a child. Since his lord is acting so abnormally, he must be sleeping with this woman tonight. After eavesdropping a lot, he doesn’t know what’s so special about her.

Soon, Dian Wei knew what was special about this woman named Feng Lu.

The screams are so loud!

She's also very good at seducing people!
It was the first time that Dian Wei heard his lord come seven times on a woman in one night!
The last time was when the lord fought against the two mistresses.

The next morning.

Dian Wei went down to rest with dark circles under his eyes.

Until evening.

Dian Wei woke up and found out that his lord had just woken up, and he couldn't help but spit, "Witch!"

The first day of February.

In the past few days, Jin Mao has been unable to extricate himself from the land of gentleness, and for the first time he has experienced what it means to be a beauty. Now he no longer wants Dian Wei to eavesdrop on him, and he even forbids Feng Lu from going out to see people.

It was Cheng Pu's arrival that broke the situation.

Upon learning that Cheng Pu came as an envoy on behalf of Sun Jian, Jin Mao received him with high-level etiquette of a provincial governor.

But Cheng Pu had heard that when Jin Mao met Liu Biao's envoy Kuai Yue, he used the etiquette of a county governor.

Now, he was received with the etiquette of a governor. Cheng Pu was unwilling to believe that there was no respect shown for him.

After more than a year of working together, Cheng Pu respects Jinmao from the bottom of his heart.

"Demou, what important matter does Sun Yuzhou have that made him send you to see me?"

Cheng Pu calmed down and chose his words carefully: "My lord, my lord is fighting Dong Zhuo at the front line and is about to break through Dagu Pass, but Yuan Shu cut off the army's food supply and he can't move forward. I was sent here to ask you for help."

There was no mention of the reason.

Jin Mao seemed a little embarrassed. As a result of this incident, Sun Jian became the biggest victim.

wrong!

"What did Demou just say?"

"Sun Yuzhou is going to fight Dong!"

Jinmao didn't expect the war to start so soon.

During this period, Nanyang County and Runan County were in chaos, and Jinmao was also very busy.

Any fragmentary news from Luoyang would be automatically ignored by Jin Mao. They were not important information and were not as important as occupying Nanjun.

Unexpectedly, the eighteen princes have begun to fight against Dong!

How many good shows have we missed?
Facing the startled Jin Mao, Cheng Pu began to explain patiently, telling Jin Mao the whole story in detail.

"Sun Jian killed Hu Zhen, the commander-in-chief of the Dong army, in battle!"

"Sun Jian defeated Lu Bu!"

"Sun Jian breaks through Guangcheng Pass!"

Gan!
I missed a good show.

He was Lu Bu among men, Red Hare among horses, a big star in the late Eastern Han Dynasty!

"Sun Yuzhou is so brave!"

Jin Mao's heart was pounding, and his desire to go to Luoyang became stronger and stronger.

With Sun Jian leading the charge, he led his elite troops to support the battle, forming a perfect coordination.

But transporting grain is still a big problem. After getting used to traveling by water, Jinmao really doesn't want to take the inefficient and costly land route.

The cost of smooth water transportation is only about one twentieth of that of land transportation. Even if you go upstream, the cost of water transportation will double, but it will still be less than one fifth of that of land transportation.

As long as you don’t encounter the turbulent and dangerous waterways in the middle and upper reaches of the Yellow River and the Yangtze River, water transportation is the invincible mode of transportation.

Because of this, Jinmao attaches great importance to the development of the navy and plans to expand the navy to 40,000 soldiers in the next two years.

This is all for later.

If we support Sun Jian, there are two major problems ahead.

First, water transportation cannot reach Guangcheng Pass directly, and it requires more or less a land transportation of several hundred miles.

Second, the issue of water transportation routes. Whether going north along the Yu River or the Ying River, one must pass through Yuan Shu’s base.

In other words, if you want to cooperate with Sun Jian, you must first get rid of Yuan Shu, otherwise, don't even think about transporting food and supplies to the front line.

Jin Mao's concept of Yuan Shu is still stuck in the period of 20,000 people. In his eyes, he is just a clown.

So Jin Mao quickly made a transportation plan without considering what Yuan Shu could do.

but!

Cheng Pu immediately pointed out the crux of the matter: "Sir, the rear general Yuan Shu's troops have exceeded 50,000. If we do not pay attention to them, we may suffer a disaster."

"what?"

Jin Mao sat up in shock and asked, "Is what Demou said true?"

"How did Yuan Shu, this bastard, do it?"

Dian Wei, who was standing behind him, couldn't help but roll his eyes. They called the other party a thief when they had only 20,000 and 50,000 soldiers, but he didn't say a word about his own 50,000 and nearly 120,000 soldiers.

What a double standard!
Cheng Pu didn't know so much, so he answered honestly and told him everything Yuan Shu had done in recent days.

"My Lord, I don't know where the rear general got so much money and food to support such a large army."

It turned out to be the case.

Jin Mao touched his nose, thinking that he was the culprit.

There is no way, Yuan Shu gave too much.

Five hundred thousand grains in exchange for nearly twenty thousand men's worth of military equipment was really too cheap.

If such a good thing happened every day, Jinmao would be willing to exchange it for two million grains of food.

Because it can be foreseen that Jingzhou is a better grain-producing area than Yangzhou.

The amount of grain harvested in Yangzhou alone exceeds 10 million dan per year, and the amount harvested in Jingzhou must be at least that much.

Add the two together, 20 million stones!

Even if one year is left fallow for two years, the annual output would still be nearly 13 million shi!
While others were still struggling for a meal, Jin Mao had already achieved food and grass freedom, and it was no problem for him to lead 50,000 people to fight all year round.

Back to topic.

It doesn't matter if Yuan Shu becomes powerful. As long as we join forces with Sun Jian, we can easily destroy him.

Cheng Pu said in embarrassment: "My lord, you have received a favor from the general, so you will not agree."

Well, Sun Jian is really awesome!

Asking for help but not wanting to do anything, just wanting to get benefits, how can such a good thing happen in the world! ?
But you have to go to Luoyang and Jinmao, if not for anything else, just for the more than 30,000 books, it's all worth it.

That is the crystallization of the wisdom of the entire Han Dynasty. As long as we have it, the gentry's monopoly on knowledge will be meaningless.

Jinmao used papermaking and movable type printing to teach them how to be a good person in every minute!

As long as there are more educated people among the people, the imperial examination system can be arranged. Will there still be fear of having no one to use in the future?
It doesn’t matter even if all the nobles die!
But Sun Jian's disgusting attitude is really disgusting.

This time, Jin Mao was not prepared to compromise and said to Cheng Pu: "Please ask Demou to go back and tell Sun Yuzhou that Yuan Shu must be eliminated!"

"At least we can't let Yuan Shu stay in Luyang County, Nanyang County, otherwise I can't help him!"

Since Sun Jian didn't want to cooperate, Jin Mao wasn't going to go to the trouble of destroying Yuan Shu. He just wanted to drive him away and keep him out of the way.

Cheng Pu left with a worried look on his face.

Jin Mao finally pulled himself out of the gentle embrace.

"Send the order!"

"Secretly summon Xi Zhicai, Xun You, Zhou Yu, Xun Yu, and Yu Fan to Jiangling County and order them to put down their current tasks and hand them over to someone they can trust."

"Also call Jin Yun, Liu Gan, and Liu Ping to come."

Now that Sun Jian can no longer be fully trusted, Jin Mao is preparing to lead his men north personally, so the people who will temporarily stay in Yangzhou and Jingzhou must be selected, otherwise, he really dare not move easily.

Sun Jian said that Yuan Shu had done him a favor and he didn't dare to take action. This is all bullshit!
It’s because Sun Jian tasted the sweetness last time at Jinmao that he wanted to repeat the same trick.

Times have changed. Now that Sun Ce is in his hands, no matter whether he is loyal or not, Jin Mao just wants these people to do their work with peace of mind.

We don’t want Sun Ce to become the “Little Overlord” in history. If that happens, it will not be good for him.

"Order Guangling Navy Division Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin to clean up the Huai River Basin and be ready to provide support at any time!"

"The entire Yangzhou and Guangling County have entered the first level of combat readiness. All soldiers are ready for war."

"Martial law has been imposed on the entire territory of Jingzhou. Notice to the whole state. Anyone violating the law will be executed!"

As the orders were issued one by one, Jin Mao's mind became clearer and clearer.

There is no need to worry too much about Yangzhou, as several threatening princes nearby are all trying to deal with Dong Zhuo.

Jingzhou needs special attention.

Also, we must bring enough powerful generals with us on this expedition, because we have people like Lu Bu and Sun Jian on the opposite side, and inferior generals will not be able to withstand it.

"Order Zhang Fei, Guan Yu, Dong Xi, Ling Cao, Gong Lei and other generals to hand over the defense and gather in Jiangling County!"

(End of this chapter)