The battle of the coup d'état is basically over, and all that remains is to clean up the battlefield and collect prisoners of war. In this matter www.biquge.info, Kass Yili followed Wan'er's guidance and was kind and tolerant of the large number of rebel prisoners, so she received a large number of praises. Of course, against the leading high nobles, Cass Eli was ruthless.

Leaving those things aside for the time being, it is only said that Kasili has now come to the city wall to inspect the city, and her personal guards naturally cleared the field for her in advance. It was at this time that it was noticed that there was a young girl dressed in a different costume from them and with a veil over her face. The veil is not uncommon to rest in peace, but the dress that is different from the custom of rest is too conspicuous.

However, it is known that Cass Eli had spent a lot of money to invite a healer from the Han Dynasty, and it was this healer who cured the illness of the current king of Anxi, and it is said that this healer was very knowledgeable, and Cass Eli would often ask this healer questions, so Kasy Eli respected this healer very much, but not many people had seen this healer.

Now that I suddenly saw a girl dressed in a big Han costume next to Kath Eli, and Kath Eli obviously had a lot of respect for this girl, people couldn't help but wonder if this girl was the big Han doctor that Kasi Eli had invited? But if so, is this healer too young? And it's still a girl?

Of course, Kass Eli would not know what kind of speculation people had, and even if she did, she would not pay attention to it. To tell the truth, the current situation seems to be Wan'er accompanying her on the trip, but the actual situation is just the opposite, she is accompanying Wan'er out to have a look.

But seeing Wan'er stop in front of an artillery, she stretched out her finger and tapped lightly on the cannon a few times, and a pair of beautiful eyebrows wrinkled. Seeing this, Kasi Eli hurriedly asked, "God...... Ah, Wan girl, is there anything wrong? ”

Wan'er looked at Cass Eli, shook her head lightly to indicate that it was fine, and then followed Kass Eli on her patrol, and never said a word since. Just when Kasili arrived at a certain high platform to accept the worship of the resting people, Wan'er glanced back at the cannons on the city wall, and said secretly in her heart: "Still can't do it...... But it can't be helped, after all, it's only around the 200th year of the Earth calendar, and the smelting process of the resting metal is still in a relatively primitive state, and it is already very good to be able to forge these breech cannons in the time since I came to rest. In addition, the purification and refining process of gunpowder is also very poor, but it takes time to do it.

"Lu Ren and Shirley have been in this era for many years, and they have created their own power group many years ago, so his strength in all aspects is far above rest. It seems that my father's plan is right, I can't compete with Lu Ren directly, I have to mess up the situation in Huaxia first, and I will only have a chance if Lu Ren is also exhausted. So ...... next"

Taking a moment to look at Cass Eli, Wan'er sighed softly: "Human greed, ambition, and desire? Take advantage of it. ”

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Twenty-three years of Jian'an, in the middle of summer.

The situation in the Central Plains of China is still the same, the battle that should be fought is still being fought, and the skin that should be pulled is still being pulled. And Lu Ren is in the game of the three competing families, what should he do...... It's not that Lu Ren doesn't want to take care of many things, but he can't manage it, do you want Lu Ren to go and tell Lao Cao and them at every turn, this battle can't be fought, and that battle can't be fought? Who cares about Cao, Liu and Sun's three families?

Of course, Lu Ren can also use the means of "trade embargo" to force Cao, Liu and Sun to comply, but Lu Ren knows very well that this kind of thing may be okay once or twice, and it will be useless to play too much tricks, and if things are too blatant, he will immediately become the common spearhead of the three families, and at that time, he will be in great trouble here. Therefore, it is better to save this kind of ultimate move for the critical time.

However, although the big move can't be used easily, the small move can come twice from time to time, and Lu Ren's small move is still an old move, do you fight? I want to escape the war-torn outcasts! It's just that at this time, the effect of this trick is not much better. After all, by the twenty-third year of Jian'an, the internal affairs of Cao, Liu, and Sun were already relatively stable, and wars were generally concentrated on several main fronts, and how many people could Lu Ren contain?

Fortunately, at this time, most of the second generation of the large number of displaced people sheltered in Yizhou at the beginning had already reached adulthood, and Lu Ren could be regarded as a "self-hematopoietic" success here. Then there is the two Liao regions, especially the Liaodong region, which has been in the hands for two years at this time, and Lu Ren has been firmly holding Liaodong in the palm of his hand through the careful management of Liaodong in the past two years.

In this way, according to the household registration statistics of Jian'an for 23 years, the total population of all the territories in Luren was about 2.3 million, which was already a very strong force at that time. However, because Luren's territory is relatively scattered, the distribution of the population is naturally not very even. The core and developed Yizhou, Quanzhou, and Guangzhou have a large first-line population, and the two Liao regions are relatively okay, and the rest of the regions are not easy to say. Well, there's no way around it.

On this day, Lu Ren was dealing with relevant government affairs, but Xun Yu hurried in, and a telegram he had just received was also handed to Lu Ren. Lu Ren took it and looked at it, raised his eyebrows and said to Xun Yu: "Xun Gong, what do you think?" ”

At this time, the weather was hot, Xun Yu had already opened some collars, and he was standing under the ceiling fan in the room to blow the wind, and the folding fan in his hand was also fanning into the collar, which shows how anxious Xun Yu was when he received this telegram: "How else can you see it?" Liu Bei arranged this, of course, to knock Hanzhong down. Without Hanzhong, his Shu land is equivalent to no portal, with Liu Bei's heroic posture, where can he sit still? It was a big mistake that Cao Mengde did not advance in Shuzhong two years ago. ”

Lu Ren poured a cup of herbal tea at hand and handed it to Xun Yu, and said with a smile: "Xun Gong, you are also the one who ran out of Lao Cao, don't you know what are the shortcomings of Lao Cao's territory?" Although Lao Cao had the opportunity to enter Shuzhong at that time, if he really fought, it would take a year and a half to have a result. Once there is a mistake, Lao Cao will most likely have to mobilize reinforcements from the rear, and his backyard will most likely be on fire, so Lao Cao can't go back. And in the past two years, Lao Cao not only fought fiercely with people inside and outside the court, but we also stumbled on him, so Lao Cao had an easy time in the past two years. ”

Xun Yu smiled, took a few sips of herbal tea and then asked, "Yihao, do you have any plans for this Cao Liu war?" ”

Lu Ren shook his head: "Hanzhong is too far away, our hands have never been able to reach through, even if I want to, I can't manage anything." It's Xun Gong, who do you think we should help? ”

Xun Yu was silent for a long time, shook his head and sighed again: "If it is for the country to be reunified, the person we want to help should actually be Cao Mengde." But if Cao Mengde defended Hanzhong, and after taking care of his backyard, he attacked Shuzhong, and then destroyed Liu Tunwu, Cao Mengde's prestige would no longer be unmatched. When that time comes, if he wants to do something again, he is afraid that he will ......"

Lu Ren also sighed: "Xun Gong, you really think so. However, for Liu Bei, we can't help too obviously. ”

Xun Yu said: "Yihao, you have been prepared? ”

Lu Ren shook his head: "I can't talk about it, I just asked the business road in Nanzhong to sell more things that Liu Bei can use." In addition, on the Jingzhou side, I played a little trick between Liu Bei and Sun Quan, and tried to keep them from fighting as much as possible. ”

Xun Yu nodded: "Checks and balances?" That's all there is to it. If Cao Mengde is not worried, I am really worried that he will ...... Alas, don't say it. ”

Lu Ren shrugged his shoulders and said that he could only do this at present. After a few more serious or not-so-serious words, Zhen Mi's deputy Chen Yiyi ran in with a stack of documents, but he reported to Lu Ren about Yizhou's financial revenue in the first half of the year. After the report, Chen Yiyi added to Lu Ren: "Uncle Lu, according to the news brought back by the overseas caravan, there seems to be some kind of agreement between Anxi and Guishan, and Guishan has assigned several seaside ports to Anxi. I haven't heard anything more about it, but it is said that there was a war between Anxi and Kushan, but the battle was very short, and it ended in less than two months. ”

Lu Ren was stunned: "Have you fought with Guishuang in peace?" And it's over after only two months? I think the scale should not be large, but a small battle of this scale can actually allow Guishan to allocate several seaside ports to Guishan? That's a bit unreasonable, right? ”

Xun Yu was also stunned: "Hasn't Rest always been good friends with Guishuang?" Yoshiho, you also said that it was because of the Kushan who helped them ensure the safety of the east, that they were able to fight Rome with all their might. How can such two countries fight for a few ports? ”

Lu Renxin said I just want to know! For many years, Lu Ren's intelligence network has mainly focused on the Huaxia region, and although it has also involved areas outside Huaxia, it is limited by various conditions and factors at that time, and even if he wants to do it, he can't do it to a detailed extent. Thinking about it again, could it be that it is because of the increasing trade between me and Central Asia here, and what happened there? And in the face of competing interests, this possibility is not impossible, because Anxi is seizing a few seaside ports, in order to use these ports to expand trade?

After thinking about it again, Lu Ren simply activated the chip and began to consult relevant historical materials. Speaking of which, because he had to do business and deal with places like Anxi and Guishan, Lu Ren naturally had historical materials that had been sorted out in these areas. Under this investigation, Lu Ren was even more confused, and said secretly in his heart: "Rest perished in 224 AD, and now it is 218 AD in the twenty-third year of Jian'an, and it has reached the last few years of rest, how can you still have the strength to fight with Guishan?"

"The most important thing is that the heyday of Kushan is from 105 to 250 AD, and the 218 AD where I am now should be the strongest time for Kushan, but Anxi not only won the battle against Kushan, but also forced Guishan to let a few ports out, which is too much to say, right? I don't deny that I can make some impact over there, but I shouldn't be able to make such a big impact, right? Even if I had gone there myself, I wouldn't have been able to make such a big move. ”

Thinking of this, Lu Ren asked Chen Yiyi, "Did the overseas caravan bring back any news?" ”

Chen Yiyi shook her head: "Not for the time being." Because when the overseas caravan arrived there, the handover of officials from the two countries there had not yet been completed, and the situation was a bit chaotic, and the caravan was afraid of causing unnecessary trouble, so it hurriedly bought and sold the goods and rushed back. ”

Lu Ren nodded a little helplessly: "This can't be blamed on them, of course it's better to start early when this kind of thing happens." Yiyi, you go and press the line, let the caravan go there again pay more attention, in case the situation is not right, don't run over there for that little profit. However, if the situation allows, ask as much as you can about the situation over there before bringing back the news. ”

Chen Yiyi nodded in response, but immediately hesitated: "It's just Uncle Lu, according to the people in the caravan, when they were about to come back, they were invited by the new local officials, saying that they wanted to expand trade with us, and they also hoped that we could sell them some new things." Oh, here's the list that the caravan brought back. ”

Find the list and hand it to Lu Ren, Lu Ren looked at it, and the two eyebrows were twisted together: "What are you kidding?" Tobacco and tea, which are other hobbies, can be sold to them. ”

Chen Yiyi and Xun Yu were curious: "The iron tools have not been sold to them, why do you say no, Yihao now?" ”

Lu Ren threw the list away: "You don't understand. In the past, they only bought the finished products that we made, but now what they want to buy is also goods on the surface, but in fact it is the manufacturing process. And how can we sell these manufacturing processes so easily? ”

Chen Yiyi and Xun Yu were both at a loss. It is said that there is a specialization in the art industry, although these two have been in Yizhou for many years, they know a little bit about that kind of thing, but they only know a little about the surface, and in turn, Lu Ren is also a little difficult to explain to these two.

In fact, to put it simply, the things that Lu Ren used to sell over there were like finished objects processed by machine tools, and it didn't matter how much they were sold, but now what they put forward by the rest side is equivalent to wanting to buy machine tools, and where can Lu Ren agree to such a request at this time? In addition, Lu Ren really doesn't understand, how does Anxi know that the products here are produced by the machine tool assembly line? Could it be that the people on his side have drunk too much and said that they have leaked their mouths? And this possibility is not out of the question.

Chen Yiyi here said that he didn't understand, but he still understood a little bit if he didn't understand, so he hesitated for a while before saying to Lu Ren: "Uncle Lu, rest in peace that the people over there said that if Uncle Lu doesn't agree...... Oh, that's not what I said. They asked the caravan to bring back a few things, saying Uncle Lu, when you see these things, maybe you will agree to sell them what they want. According to them, it seems that these few things of theirs are things that Uncle Lu should want very much. ”

Lu Ren was also curious: "There is such a thing? It's true that there is a lot of food over there, but it doesn't seem like there's anything I really want, right? Forget that, what about what they sent? Send it to me to see, I want to see what they say I want. ”

Chen Yi responded, went out and called a few times, and then a few attendants came in with a tray and a few small wooden barrels. Lu Ren was happy when he saw this small wooden barrel, and said in his heart, what is this what I want? Could it be that this little barrel contains Louis XIII? Let's not say that Louis XIII doesn't know where Louis XIII is at this time, even if it is Louis XIII, with Lu Ren's net worth today, he has long been out of sight.

With such a smile in his heart, one of the attendants had already opened a small wooden barrel. Lu Ren glanced into the bucket and saw that it was filled with some kind of liquid that was pitch black. If it was just a liquid, Lu Ren might not feel anything special, but the smell emitted by this liquid suddenly awakened the deep memories that Lu Ren almost had forgotten.

"This taste...... No way? Impossible, right? I don't know what the smell of oil is, but I can't be wrong...... Historical materials often say that black oil is produced in the Western Regions, and some call it dragon oil, could it be that this so-called dragon oil is the crude oil of oil? Wouldn't that be too much of a stretch? ”

With such a question, Lu Ren asked the second small wooden barrel to be opened. And this time, Lu Ren didn't look at it, but his face changed when he smelled the smell, so that the small wooden barrel behind him was not opened again.

Seeing that Lu Ren had already left the table, pacing back and forth in the room, Chen Yiyi and Xun Yu, who were also in the room, could even hear Lu Ren repeatedly muttering to himself "This is impossible". Then, before they could ask questions, Lu Ren had already called to the attendant at the door: "You! Immediately go and invite Xue Changshi (referring to Shirley), just say that I have something urgent to find her! ”

The attendant took the order and left, and Xun Yu looked at Lu Ren with an inexplicable expression: "Yihao, Shirley is on vacation at home today, why don't you just call her?" Why send someone to invite it? ”

Lu Ren slapped his head at Xun Yu's reminder. Yizhou has been developing for many years, and the main personnel have telephones at home...... Hehe, they are all very earthy wired telephones, and they still need to be wired by an operator to make a call. Of course, it doesn't matter, Lu Ren is in Yizhou now, if you really want to find Shirley, just activate the chip communication, and you don't need to make a phone call.

But this also shows one thing, and it is also one thing that Xun Yu and Chen Yiyi are aware of, that is, Lu Ren was really shocked at this time, and he forgot that he had a phone in shock......