Liu Zheng proposed to involve the Zhen family, firstly, out of trust in the Zhen family, and secondly, because of distrust of the Zhang family.

It is not impossible to leave the Zhang family to do this kind of thing of transporting horses from the north, but if the Zhang family is fully responsible, corruption and monopoly will inevitably breed.

If there is a monopoly in an industry, it is not very conducive to its prosperity.

Moreover, the Zhang family has always been the person introduced by Yuan Shang, and the relationship with Liu Zheng is not good, and he is fully responsible for this matter, which cannot make Liu Zheng fully trust, and the participation of the Zhen family will make Liu Zheng feel much more at ease.

For this, how could Zhang Shiping, an old and refined guy, not know.

After Liu Zheng raised this, he immediately agreed.

"Your Majesty, no problem, anyway, this matter is very important, we can't control it even if we have a Zhang family, and if the Zhen family participates, we can also ensure the success of this matter."

After all, this matter is very important, and it is impossible for the Zhang family to eat this cake alone.

With Liu Zheng's instructions, let a few more families and horses participate.

You can also do this better job.

This is good for both parties.

Zhang Shiping naturally will not refuse.

At this time, Liu Zheng heard Zhang Shiping's promise, but also nodded, and the matter was determined.

"Okay, since the matter is decided, then the head of the Zhang family, you can go down and contact my finance minister Mi Fang, just tell him how much early start-up capital is needed, and he will contact you on my behalf, and the specific matters are up to him."

Liu Zheng doesn't need to take care of the rest of the things, and naturally there will be other people who will go to connect with Zhang Shiping.

What Liu Zheng needs to worry about is whether the first batch of war horses transported by Zhang Shiping from the north in the near future will meet his requirements.

After this matter was arranged, Liu Zheng met Mi Fang again.

When I met with Mi Fang, I wanted to talk to Mi Fang about the matter of cooperating with Zhang Shiping to trade war horses, let Mi Fang have a snack, and arrange for the people of the Mi family to be responsible. At the same time, Liu Zheng's second disciple Mi Wei began to gradually learn some things about the Mi family.

Second, to meet with Mi Fang, I also have to discuss with Mi Fang about Qianzhuang.

It has been more than a year since the implementation of this matter.

Of course, the response of the money bank has been good for more than a year, at least at present, these people under Liu Zheng's command have accepted the existence of the money bank, and at the same time, they also recognize the paper money.

Each county under his command has a branch of Qianzhuang, although it is not easy to manage. However, it can continue to run after all, at least Liu Zheng relies on money and continuously absorbs private wealth, and he does not worry about money in a short period of time, and the economy is also thriving.

After being silent for more than half a year, now Liu Zheng, with economic recovery and strong military strength, is also time to launch a battle against Liu Bei and others.

Mi Fang reported some things in Qianzhuang to Liu Zheng recently, and basically there was no chaos, because after the last Xu Yu incident, there was no more embezzlement of money.

Everything was going on in an orderly manner, and Liu Zheng didn't ask too much and let Mi Fang go down to do something.

For a long time in the future, Liu Zheng lived a very quiet life, without the disturbance of war.

What you need to do on weekdays is nothing more than to deal with the government during the day, and at night, you will accompany your family.

Now that his children are older, they can surround him and call their father, Liu Zheng is also satisfied with this, and he likes this kind of life quite a lot.

A month later.

The news came back from the north that Huang Zhong and Gan Ning led their soldiers and horses to capture Shangyong, and successfully took Shangyong City, and the soldiers pointed directly at Hanzhong, but without Liu Zheng's order, they did not act rashly, although they were not far from Hanzhong, they still stopped the pace of attack.

Although Hanzhong has a large population, the number of troops that can be formed is not too large, at most 50,000 people.

These 50,000 people had to be stationed in different places by Zhang Lu in batches, and in addition to the army, there were also some followers of the Wudoumi Sect.

There are about 80,000 people in these miscellaneous people, but after being distributed to various towns, Shangyong City is only 30,000 people.

With only 20,000 or 30,000 soldiers and horses, Huang Zhong and Gan Ning will come out, and they will inevitably be captured.

Now that it took a month to build Shangyong City, Liu Zhengdu still feels a little slow.

But fortunately, after he heard the situation on Liu Bei's side from his subordinates, he didn't feel anything, as long as Liu Bei hadn't completely defeated Hanzhong, then everything was still in time.

Liu Bei personally led his five tiger generals to attack Hanzhong, but they traveled a long distance to transport soldiers and horses from near Chang'an City to reach the Hanzhong area, and after they settled down peacefully, this journey took more than half a month.

After all, it is winter, and it is extremely difficult to march in the case of heavy snowfall, and all kinds of things are very difficult together.

Originally, this winter, Liu Bei and these people were not very good at marching, after running to the border of Hanzhong, half of the grain and grass were lost, and there was a shortage of food in winter, if Hanzhong was not defeated in a short period of time, then Liu Bei's people would be in trouble, and Liu Bei, who had always been cautious, finally chose to postpone the plan to attack Hanzhong.

The only way to do this was to return to Chang'an first, and send a small force to be stationed near Hanzhong to open up the roads along the way, and at the same time clear a road for the army to pass.

After hearing the news, Liu Zheng smiled, he thought that Liu Bei would take Hanzhong with lightning speed, but who knew that Liu Bei would give up, which made the plan he prepared at the beginning go to naught.

Perhaps, it was also because of Liu Zheng's early action that he sent Huang Zhong, Gan Ning and others to attack Shangyong, which made Liu Bei, who was originally ambitious, also retreat a little.

Liu Zheng on the side was eyeing him, even if Liu Bei was ambitious, he didn't dare to do it in front of Liu Zheng, otherwise Liu Zheng would become a fisherman, which was not what Liu Bei wanted to see.

However, although Liu Bei gave up, Liu Zheng did not give up completely, and the plan to attack Hanzhong was gradually brewing. It's just that it won't be until next year.

In the past two months, the whole long winter ushered in spring when the rain and snow melted.

February 193.

Although the rain and snow in early spring have melted, the weather is still cold.

Two or three months have passed, and these two or three months have not been good for Zhang Lu in Hanzhong and Liu Bei in Luoyang, but they are extremely happy for Liu Zheng.