The battle is over.

This time, Guo Jia let the 30,000 thieves of Taihang Mountain retreat without a single soldier, and formed a good relationship with Zhang Yan.

"Fujun!"

Seeing Zhang Yan and the others leaving Lunu City in a majestic manner, Xu Shu was a little puzzled.

This is a good opportunity to recruit Zhang Yan, why didn't Guo Jia mention it?

Hehe!

Guo Jia smiled faintly.

"Yuan Zhi, do you think that a person who commands a number of thieves will surrender to me so easily?"

Xu Shu was suddenly a little speechless.

It's not that Guo Jia doesn't want to recruit Zhang Yan, but it's just that he can't do it yet.

First of all, Zhang Yan's subordinates are numerous and powerful, dominating Taihang Mountain, and the local government can't help him. The mountain is high and the emperor is far away, and he can be regarded as a soil emperor.

Although Zhang Yan admired Guo Jia very much in this battle, it was still very difficult to say that he would surrender, after all, there were still many mountains on Taihang Mountain, and it was not something he could decide alone.

Secondly, the thieves in Taihang Mountain are uneven, there are heroes and heroes, and there are also traitors, and it takes Guo Jia a lot of energy to deal with this group of problematic troops.

How can he have this time now?

In the end, money, money.

After having 10,000 more soldiers, Zhongshan County's expenses are soaring, if it weren't for the fat sheep of the Zhang family, Guo Jia would have gone bankrupt a long time ago, where would he have spare money to raise tens of thousands of thieves?

Besides, the soldiers are not expensive, the 10,000 people under him have been trained, and their combat effectiveness is not inferior to the tens of thousands of thieves in Taihang Mountain.

Of course, to have a good relationship with Zhang Yan, Guo Jia still has a layer of consideration.

After the Yellow Turban Uprising, although there were signs of recruiting and secession in various places, the real warlord secession was after Dong Zhuo's rebellion, that is, in 189 AD.

During this period, there are still four or five years to go, and Guo Jia naturally wants to expand his territory, and suppressing bandits is a good reason.

Guo Jia can use the excuse of suppressing bandits to recruit troops and horses to expand his territory.

Eradicated the Zhang family and wisely retired the thieves of Taihang Mountain, Guo Jia's reputation is already in full swing.

Needless to say, the Su family and the Zhen family naturally showed favor to other small and medium-sized families.

For a time, Guo Jia became the object of attention from Zhongshan celebrities.

The visit is fake, but the set is almost real.

This Lord Taishou is a ruthless character, as soon as he entered Zhongshan, he bulldozed the Zhang family, the largest wealthy family, and then repelled the plundering of tens of thousands of thieves in Taihang Mountain.

They dare not come, and they cannot fail to come.

Of course, it can't come empty-handed, grain, cloth, horses, cattle and sheep are constantly sent to Lunu.

Guo Jia naturally did not refuse to come.

At the same time, he took the opportunity to promote Zhongshan's plan to become a border trade free port.

With the covert support of the Su family and the Zhen family, this plan was quickly recognized by the major families in Zhongshan.

They are not fools, and they know that once this free trade zone is completed, the major families in Zhongshan will rise to the top, so they spare no effort to implement the plan.

Guo Jia raised some gold beads and sent someone to secretly send them to the door of the ten permanent servants in Luoyang, and the imperial court naturally had no opinion on Guo Jia's proposal.

Soon, Guo Jia's plan for a border trade free port was smoothly implemented.

Lunu became the first port of trade without taxes.

The horse market has always been a channel for trade between the Han Dynasty and ethnic minorities, but the merchants were exploited by the way of making money at the border gates and the government.

Now that the entire border county has suddenly opened up to become Malaysia City, and there is no tax, how can the merchants not like it?

As a result, the Huns, Wuhuan, and Xianbei businessmen sent people to negotiate one after another, and brought a few samples. The entire city of Lunu became a showcase for their merchandise.

Here, they have different feelings.

In Zhongshan, they don't need to pay taxes and are not afraid of being bullied.

Because Taishou-sama has already promised.

Doing business in Zhongshan, the government does not take a penny, and if someone dares to bully them, they will definitely be punished by the Zhongshan soldiers.

Businessmen seek profit.

Merchants from the mainland also heard the news, and they smelled money here.

Guo Jia handed over the project to Man Chong and Mao Jie, both of whom are internal affairs talents. With the help of Su Zhen and other Zhongshan families, the plan was gradually promoted.

The matter of the free trade port gradually got on the right track, and Guo Jia immediately began to train these 10,000 soldiers.

It is an eternal truth that the barrel of a gun comes out of power.

Once the free treaty port is built, Zhongshan County will definitely become a treasure land of feng shui where every inch of land is valuable. The huge income will inevitably be coveted by the surrounding powers, and in order to keep the fruits of this victory, Guo Jia must have a strong army under his command.

These 10,000 county soldiers have a very good foundation, most of them are natives of Zhongshan, and there is no big problem with loyalty.

Guo Jia divided the 10,000 soldiers into cavalry and infantry.

Two thousand cavalry, divided into two teams. Each team has 1,000 people, led by Zhao Yun and Xu Huang respectively.

Eight thousand infantry, divided into four teams of two thousand each.

Yu Ban was the first team and cooperated with Cheng Yu to garrison Zhangjiawu Fort.

Zhang Hegaolan is the second team and is stationed in Anguo.

Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are the third team and are stationed in Wuji County.

The last team was personally led by Guo Jia and garrisoned in Lunu City, commanded by Xu Shu.

In addition, Guo Jia reprimanded and transferred 100 elites from 10,000 county soldiers to serve as his own personal soldiers, known as the Tiger Guard. Dian Wei and Xu Chu naturally became the leaders of this army.

Now that the army has been dispatched, the next step is to build armor and train the army.

Yu Ban, Zhang He, and Xu Huang are all rare good generals, and Xi Zhong, Xu Shu, and Cheng Yu are also talents who are in charge of their own affairs.

After everything settled down, Xu Chu said goodbye to Guo Jia and prepared to return to his hometown to recruit relatives to come to Zhongshan for refuge.

Guo Jia suddenly remembered Cai Yan's agreement, calculated that there were still some days before the Yellow Turban Uprising, and decided to follow Xu Chu to the south at the same time, while recruiting the Xu clan, he took Cai Meimei and his Lao Tzu back by the way.

Of course, this decision was once again rejected by all the staff.

First, as a feudal official, he can't leave the territory without being summoned by the imperial court, and second, things in Zhongshan have just stabilized, and it is very inappropriate for Guo Jia to leave now.

Besides, to pick up Cai's father and daughter, only Xu Chu is enough, and Guo Jia's visit is undoubtedly a snake to add.

In the face of everyone's opposition, Guo Jia naturally ignored it, and on a dark and windy night, this guy secretly took Diao Chan Zhen Jiang Dian, Wei Xu Chu and a hundred elites to secretly leave Zhongshan.

By the time everyone found out, they couldn't catch up, so they had to complain that this was too unreliable.

But complaining and complaining, everyone is busy and has thrown themselves into the hot work.

Guo Jia can be lazy, but they can't.