To put it mildly, Cao Cao, who finally appeased Frustration and admitted that he would never spend money lavishly, finally watched Frustration leave here with satisfaction.

The honest man has a temper, it is even more terrifying, I am honest, I don't deceive me, Cao Cao sighed in his heart, and then thought of the crossbow, the divine arm bow and the obstacle knife, which are good, and his heart is much better, and he walked into the palace.

Frustrated and waiting for Cao Cao this time, it was not entirely to vent the grievances in his heart, but also to remind Cao Cao that although there is still money in the treasury, it can't withstand Cao Cao's lavish spending, if a country even spends all the money in reserve, then just think about the end of the Ming Dynasty, there is no need to say more here.

It is precisely because of this that Cao Cao comforted the frustrated professor in a good voice, after all, he understood the meaning of the frustration, otherwise, he would be someone else, for other reasons, Cao Cao dragged him down and killed him without saying a word.

Although he is a traverser, but to make Cao Cao like other traversers, to be an emperor without an emperor, any courtier can be pressed on his head, Cao Cao is still insensitive.

And when Cao Cao was in a happy mood, there were some people in the north who were not in a good mood.

In the Jicheng City of Youzhou, in the box of an inn, merchants in brocade clothes sat on their seats with gloomy faces, silent, and at the same time seemed to be waiting for someone.

With a squeak, the door of the box was opened again, and when the businessmen saw the people who came in, their faces suddenly improved, and they all said, "Brother Liu." We've finally waited for you to come. ”

The one called Brother Liu was a middle-aged man who didn't look amazing, and he had a smile on his face. He hugged his fists and said to the businessmen who were doing it: "Everyone, Liu is here." Thank you for your understanding. ”

After a polite exchange, the nearly twenty businessmen present sat down with each other, and one of the younger businessmen couldn't wait to stand up and said: "Brother Liu, why did I gather here today, Brother Liu also understands that he won't say much in the next place, and ask himself a word in the next place." What is the posture above, now that the grassland is under the jurisdiction of the government, where else can we catch slaves when we wait for the northern slave hunting team? ”

The merchant's words made the identities of everyone present clear, they were all slave catchers from the north!

The earliest slave hunters were those who accepted Cao Cao's orders and sent people north of the Great Wall to capture the grasslands. The merchants who consumed the power of the grassland, but with the gradual transparency of the violent industry of slavery, more and more merchants joined in, and slave hunters gradually emerged.

Originally, there were more slave hunters in the Northland. However, with the departure of some far-sighted slave hunters and their heading to the Xiliang region, that's all that's left. I thought that the time to pacify the grassland would not be too fast, and only now did I regret the northern slave catcher.

This Brother Liu. It is equivalent to the head of these merchants, just because he is the first batch. coughed lightly, and said unhurriedly: "Why are you so anxious, this grassland is gone, and on the island further east, there are not a lot of uncivilized barbarians, compared to those peers in Xiliang, our northern land is good." ”

The experience of Xiliang's peers can be said to have heard of it, and when they thought of the peers who were reported by the Wuwei County Guard, the hearts of these businessmen immediately became a lot more relaxed, the so-called peers are enemies, not to mention the slave trade, which is a profiteering industry.

After some schadenfreude, more people's eyes were on the barbarians further east, and although the status of the merchants was low, the information in their hands was the most among all the people in this era.

The Korean Peninsula, perhaps in the interior of the Central Plains at this time, was almost completely unknown to the people of the south, even to the people of the north, but to the merchants, they were very clear.

Before, it was just dark under the lights, and I didn't think of it, but now after thinking about it, everyone's hearts are relieved, as long as there is still a place to capture slaves, then they have nothing to worry about.

At this time, with a smile on his face, just like the so-called Maitreya Buddha in later generations, the businessman surnamed Liu smiled even more, and said very harmlessly: "It's not just those barbarians on the island, you don't know if you remember, Gongsun Du of Liaodong, set himself up as the king, and cut off the connection with my Central Plains, therefore, at this time, he is completely the king of the outside world, and the people under his command are naturally also people outside the world. ”

Merchants have no borders, this sentence is true, and the word profiteers is also true, especially in this era when the norms and restrictions on merchants are not very perfect, the harm that has erupted from profit-seeking businessmen is absolutely beyond imagination.

In the next three or four months, by constantly capturing the barbarians on the Liaodong and the Korean Peninsula, the wealth in the hands of the merchants in the north gradually became huge, once the wealth in the hands of the merchants was huge, the first to be eroded must be the government, and Liaodong Gongsun Du, as the emperor of the soil connecting the Central Plains and the Korean Peninsula, his bureaucrats were the first to suffer from the money offensive.

The speed of corruption is terrifying, and in less than half a month, the entire bureaucratic system in Liaodong has been almost completely corroded, not only because of the merchants' money offensive, but also because the windfall profits of the slave trade are not something that anyone can resist.

Within three or four months, compared to their northwestern counterparts who were a little frightened because of the Wuwei County guard, the merchants of the Northland actually sold a total of nearly 200,000 slaves to the Central Plains in this short period of three to four months, and such a huge population transaction immediately attracted the attention of the secret guards all over the world, but the secret guards who had never been in contact with these were only curious about the nearly 200,000 slave trade, and they did not have too much vigilance, but let them go.

Ambition and courage tend to become huge with the passage of time, this is the case with the merchants of the North, the huge slave trade of 200,000 not only allowed them to obtain more wealth, but also made them bolder, they only dared to corrupt the Liaodong region, and gradually began to corrupt the bureaucrats in Youzhou!

Although Cao Cao's punishment of corrupt officials is unprecedented, and the secret guards are generally on the body of those corrupt officials, but this treats the symptoms but not the root cause, although there are many corrupt officials who have been caught, but they are more greedy, plus these northern businessmen are very smart, and the general bribes are the low-level officials, and then through them, layer by layer. (To be continued......)