Through commerce with the Central Plains, Gongsun Du became richer and richer.

More and more land and peasant households in eastern Liaodong have begun to grow medicinal herbs instead of grain.

There are also many people who simply abandon their land to engage in animal husbandry, thinking that they will make a fortune and buy more land.

They all found huge profits in this area, and found that the demand for these things in the Central Plains was very large, and the money that could be obtained by planting these things was far more than growing food.

Not like that at first.

In the beginning, there were many people who were skeptical, and everyone was reluctant to follow the trend, thinking that if they didn't grow food, what would they be able to eat? Are they all going to starve to death?

The Central Plains Business Brigade said that it had moved a few families to plant medicinal herbs instead of food, thinking that it was an experiment, and they also took out enough food to mortgage them to make them believe in themselves.

Then it's harvest time.

As such a group of people who reluctantly believed that the Central Plains Business Brigade II took the lead in giving up growing food and planting medicinal herbs began to make a lot of money, the people around them were all red-eyed.

These people don't grow food, and they have found a way to grow medicinal herbs, and it seems that there are merchants who send special people to guide them in planting medicinal herbs.

During this period, if the food at home could not keep up, the business traveler would also mortgage the grain for them to live, and when the medicinal materials were ready and began to be sold, they would be sold at a very good price, and they would not worry about the market at all.

Those people counted the money and their hands trembled, and then those people made a fortune, and began to use the money to buy food to eat, and they could also buy meat to eat, and they ate dry rice and meat at every meal, and they were full of food, and they could still eat during the New Year's holidays.

Those little days were more moisturized than those who grew food, and I don't know how many times they were nourished.

With money in their hands and a full stomach, they go around flaunting their foresight.

How can this not be eye-catching?

One to ten, ten to hundred, the first rich to drive the later rich, more and more people in red eyes gave up planting food, instead of planting medicinal materials, pieces of land began to grow medicinal materials instead of food.

Everyone is a person who likes money, not to mention that there are people around you who are really rich under everyone's nose.

Showing off everywhere, holding a piece of roasted meat to show off, while eating, looking at everyone's envious eyes and swallowing saliva, the pride on his face is really undisguised.

Can this be endured?

Who doesn't want to make a lot of money and have a full stomach?

So this trend swept the land of Liaodong in just a few years, and more and more people began to engage in such planting business and do business with the Central Plains Business Travel.

Not only Hermes-Epitek, but also in other places, even in Goguryeo and Buyeo.

The Central Plains Business Brigade has expanded its business to the entire Liaodong region, as if it is going to become a much-needed medicinal herb planting base in the Central Plains, and everyone comes to grow medicinal herbs.

After this kind of trade gradually took shape, Guo noticed that the land under Gongsun Du's jurisdiction was getting less and less to grow food, and the grain production was declining year by year, and realized that his trick had succeeded.

After that, Guo began to guide the Cao and Mi caravans to take advantage of the abundant grain in Qingzhou and Jizhou to do grain business from the waterway to the counties and counties of Liaodong, and gradually intervene in the grain market in Liaodong.

This move not only directly stabilized the grain price that Liaodong had just begun to take off, but also allowed the Central Plains merchants to manipulate the grain price in Liaodong with their absolute grain superiority, so that the rulers of Liaodong, who lacked economic common sense, were completely unaware of the food crisis that Liaodong was facing.

The era of false economic prosperity has arrived, and false prosperity has made many people lose their sense of crisis.

Soon, the merchants of the Central Plains marched into Liaodong in a big way, bringing more welfare and prosperity to Liaodong, and the grain prices of the counties in Liaodong, including the five counties of Liaodong, Zhongliao, Liaoxi, Xuansu, and Lelang, were also controlled by the Central Plains merchants.

In order to get more money and become richer, Gongsun Du further increased his support for medicinal herbs and animal husbandry, and did not care about the fact that there were fewer and fewer people growing food.

The merchants of the Central Plains controlled the price of grain in Liaodong within a relatively reasonable range, and in this way built a false prosperity, so that the officials and people in Liaodong were more willing to grow medicinal herbs and engage in animal husbandry, and provided medicinal materials and livestock to the Central Plains.

I have to say that some of the medicinal materials that Guo equipped the army with were purchased from Liaodong, and some of the meat supplied to the army also came from Liaodong.

More than eighty percent of Liaodong's grain comes from Jizhou and Qingzhou.

If the food supply to Liaodong was suddenly withdrawn, Guo Peng didn't dare to imagine what kind of scene it would be.

Anyway, for Gongsun Du, it must not be a good thing.

And Guo Peng intends to do just that.

Since knowing that Liu Zhang has surrendered, he has been preparing for it.

Through secret channels, he ordered all the grain merchants of the Cao clan and the Mi clan who went to Liaodong to do business to empty their respective stocks, leave Liaodong separately, stop doing grain business with the people of Liaodong, and never return.

Leave a mess to Gongsun Du, and let Gongsun Du be annoyed in a serious illness.

At the same time, he had to issue another holy decree and pretend to appease Gongsun Du, so as to paralyze Gongsun Du's nerves and make him unable to react so quickly.

The evil Guo had no intention of making Gongsun Du feel better, and wanted his regime to die in poverty and illness.

The kind of death that is not good to die.

Even resistance was weak and powerless, and it was simply impossible to concentrate all its strength to resist the invading Wei army

In fact, before that, Gongsun Du's life was still very good.

After all, he is the ruler of Liaodong, and if his life is not good, then everyone's life will be difficult.

Through the trade with the Central Plains merchants, he obtained a lot of wealth and a lot of luxury goods, and his life became more and more luxurious, and his food and clothing were of the highest level.

For example, the lighting must be made of giant candles from Luoyang, the clothes must be woven with Shu brocade, and fruits from the Central Plains and even citrus and sugarcane from the south of the Yangtze River must be eaten every day, and the best rice must be eaten.

His life is like that of an emperor, no worse than Guo in all aspects, and there are some things that Guo is reluctant to use, and he uses them very happily.

Before Guo Peng became emperor, Gongsun Du's life was so extravagant day by day.

After Guo Peng became emperor, his life was even more extravagant to a certain extent.

It seems that the older he gets, the less ambitious he is, the more he cares about enjoying it in time, and the more he cares about enjoying what he didn't enjoy after working hard to start a business before, and completely loses his will to forge ahead.

Around mid-June, news of Guo Peng's pacification of Yizhou spread from Qingzhou to Liaodong, causing some of the Gongsun courtiers to feel uneasy.

His close subordinates Liu Yi and Yang Yi kept admonishing him, saying that they should carefully guard against the threat from Liaoxi County and Tian Yu's threat, but Gongsun Du didn't take it seriously.

"I have tens of thousands of soldiers, Liaoze is dangerous, why be afraid? If Tian Yu'er wants to cross Liaoze, can't I know in advance? ”

Gongsun Du didn't listen to Liu Yi and Yang Yi's advice, but became impatient with the two of them's advances, thinking that such a thing was not what he wanted to hear.

He just wants to know how much money he makes and how many luxuries he can get.

And his sick body really didn't have much energy to worry about this kind of thing.

Gongsun Du's current appearance is completely different from his heroic and majestic fight against the alien races in Liaodong in his early years.

Gongsun Du, who is addicted to money and enjoyment, is no longer the Gongsun Du of the past.

Such a Gongsun Du made Liu Yi and Yang Yi feel very embarrassed and worried.

And in recent days, the fact that Gongsun Du has been sick because of excessive drinking and pleasure has made them feel even more worried.

Now that Guo Peng has pacified the south, the next target is either Jiaozhou or Liaodong, Liaodong is already in a very dangerous situation, but Gongsun Du is not the same thing.

Liu Yi and Yang Yi felt that it was not possible to go on like this, so they made a statement to Gongsun Du on June 20 of the second year of Yande.

As a result, Gongsun Du lay on the sickbed and did not forget to reprimand them.

"He has been fighting Jingzhou and Yizhou in two years, yes! Terrible! But is it over when you hit it? Doesn't he want to govern? Governance doesn't take time? Don't need money? If he, Guo Zifeng, can immediately raise troops to Liaodong, the word "Lonely" Gongsun will be written upside down! ”

Gongsun Du waved his hand very tired to let Liu Yi and Yang Yi get out of the way, and the two had to leave Gongsun Du's hospital room very depressed.

Outside Gongsun Du's ward, the two met Gongsun Kang, who came to serve the sick.