Gao Yuan said with a smile: "If the Qi State can send troops and attack back and forth with our representative army, I will be completely sure that I will take Zhao Yan and Yan in one fell swoop, and in this way, the Qi State can also expand its territory and expand its national strength." ”

Tian Kezang smiled bitterly and said: "Now that I can persuade the king and the ministers to expand their armaments, it is not easy, and the king has repeatedly asked me to restrain the army of the Qi State and not provoke the outside world without authorization, so if I want the Qi State to send troops to attack Yan Zhao, I am afraid it will be difficult to do it." ”

In fact, Gao Yuan knew that it was impossible for Qi to send troops to cooperate with him to attack Zhao Yan's land, a country that has pursued pacifism for more than 40 years and has not fought a war, it is impossible for them to send troops immediately, and Gao Yuan has never expected Qi to send troops, the reason why he said this is just to capture himself and indulge himself, because he has already taken the initiative to invite Qi to send troops, and Qi does not want to send troops, so don't blame yourself for being polite. In the future, even if he seized the land of Zhao Yan, Qi Guo would have nothing to say.

Seeing Tian Kezang say this, Gao Yuan smiled: "Then it is better to ask Qi Guo to continue to open up the trade routes with our Daijun, and sell us food and materials, and provide more convenience, then it will be fine." ”

Tian Kezhang nodded and said, "This is nature. ”

Although Qi does not have large grain-producing areas like Guanzhong, Bashu and Daliang, after more than 40 years of recuperation, a large amount of grain has been accumulated in the country, and if there is more grain, the price of grain will naturally plummet. In the past two or three years, Daijun has purchased a lot of grain from the Qi State, and even the old accumulated grain has also bought a lot, which can be used as feed for cattle and horses, and the merchants of the Qi State have also made a lot of money. What's more, Daijun paper has also completely opened the market in Qi and has become a sought-after commodity in the Qi market, and Daijun also has furs, agricultural and animal husbandry products, etc., so the business exchanges between Daijun and Qi are very frequent.

In the Qi State, the merchants had a lot of power, so even Qi Wangjian did not dare to give an order to prohibit the merchants from trading with the Daijun. Of course, if Tian Kezhang takes care of it, it can also reduce a lot of unnecessary troubles. It's still good for Daijun.

Gao Yuan said: "That's good, the population of our Daijun is insufficient, so the grain production is limited, as long as the Qi country supplies enough food to our Daijun and provides some convenient conditions for our caravan, this is the greatest help to our Daijun." ”

Tian Kezang said: "Please Wu Anjun don't worry, with me taking care of the Qi country, the caravan of Daijun will be fine." After a pause, he said, "But can Wu Anjun send more generals to help us train our army." ”

Because there has been no war for more than 40 years, there are no capable generals in the Qi army, and they are a little rusty about how to train, so they need to support some instructors on behalf of the county to help the training of the Qi army.

Prior to this aid to Wei, Gao Yuan sent five commanders and fifty centurions to Qi to guide the training of the Qi army. With the help of the Dai Army, the situation is really different, as long as the army is guided and trained by the Dai Jun generals, the combat effectiveness is obviously much higher than that of other armies, but there are too few Dai Jun generals to guide the training of the Qi army, and they can only train 20,000 or 30,000 troops, which is obviously not enough, so Tian Kezhang also hopes that the plateau can send more middle-level officers to guide the training of the Qi army.

In fact, sending someone to guide the training of the Qi army can strengthen the influence of the Dai army on the Qi army, and understand the reality of the Qi army, which is of course beneficial to the Dai Jun, so Gao Yuan nodded and said: "This is easy to say, when I return to the Dai County, I will arrange it immediately, please rest assured An Pingjun." After a pause, Gao Yuan smiled again: "Actually, it doesn't have to be that we send someone to the Qi country to guide the training of the Qi army, but the Qi country can also send some officers or troops to the county to train with our army, and even participate in the battle in the name of our army, isn't it better?" ”

Tian Kezang's eyes lit up, and the mention of the plateau made him very moved, although sending the army to Daijun to be trained to participate in the war, there will be a lot of controversy in the Qi country, but he can send the private soldiers of the fiefdom to go, so that it will not attract attention, and at the same time enhance his own strength, and wait for this army to return from learning, and then teach other armies, then his own private soldiers will become the strongest army in the Qi country, so Tian Kezhang immediately said: "Thank you Wu Anjun, after I return to Linzi, I will arrange personnel immediately." ”

After talking to Gao Yuan, Tian Kezang's heart also had a lot of bottom, and at the same time, he was very happy with Gao Yuan's mentions, so Tian Kezang's mood was also very good, and the two talked about some other things, quite speculatively, and talked about it late at night.

On the second day, Tian Kezhang said goodbye to the plateau and turned back to Linzi, while the plateau led a large group of men and horses to continue to set off and march towards the Qiyan border. Three days later, Zhang Liang led the purchased grain, caught up with the brigade of people and horses on the plateau, and after the two sides converged, they advanced towards Yan State, which is actually Daijun.

After passing through the Qi State and entering the territory of the Yan State, although the Guanji between the Daijun and the Yan State has been completely broken, the Dai Army can still come and go freely within the Yan State, and the Yan Army naturally does not dare to stop it, but the Dai Army basically walks along the border of the Yan State, and does not harass the people of the Yan State, so it did not cause much reaction, and the monarchs and ministers of the Yan State pretended not to see it.

Because of the large number of civilians with them, the speed of the march was not fast, and the army withdrew from Daliang at the end of September, and walked all the way for more than two months, until the beginning of December before reaching Daijun.

At this time, Li Yinghong, who stayed in Daijun, had already received a notice from the plateau, knowing that this time the plateau had brought back a large number of Wei army and people, and had prepared a large number of houses, tents, daily necessities, and cold items in Daijun to temporarily settle this group of army and people, and then slowly arrange their settlement places and land properties. Since it was already December and the weather was cold, it was impossible to start farming, so we would settle these people down first.

Although the population brought back by the plateau this time was not as large as the last time, it was a good thing that the population had increased, and now the county was also short of population, so Ning Qi, Shen Shen, Geng Zhong and other administrative officials were also very happy.

Gao Yuan also ordered that all Wei soldiers with families should live with their families, and those who did not have families were temporarily placed in the barracks. And all the soldiers of the Dai Army were disbanded and let them go back to reunite with their families. And the generals who accompanied the army all let them go home.

After dealing with all these things, Gao Yuan made some simple arrangements for the officials, and then went back to his mansion with Li Yinghong.

At this time, the other wives and concubines of the plateau, Yun Yao, Geng Yanyu, Lin Wenqing, and the adopted son Luo Huan were also waiting for him to come back in the mansion, this time the plateau left Daijun in February and came back in December, almost a year away, and it was also the longest time that the plateau left, so after the plateau and Li Yinghong came back, they were naturally warmly welcomed by the wives and concubines. It also makes the plateau, who has been fighting abroad for nearly a year, feel the warmth of family, and the whole body and mind can be completely relaxed.

And at dinner, everyone was talking about what had happened to each other during this time. Although the two sides have been separated from each other for nearly a year, there has been a constant exchange of letters, and the affairs of the two places are actually known to each other. However, because the content of the letters is limited, and it is mainly about government affairs, there is little mention of family affairs, and it is impossible for Gao Yuan to record the battle of Daliang in detail and send it back to Daijun, so they only know a rough idea of each other, and they don't know much about the details, and at this time, they can speak in detail.

Of course, what they talked about the most was what happened in the mansion, after all, the war in Daliang and the government affairs of Daijun were all official business, and it was not suitable to talk about them in this atmosphere, and the wives and concubines were very satisfied with Gao Yuan's safe return, except for Li Yinghong, others were not interested in the war, and Gao Yuan didn't want to tell them these bloody, violent and cruel things and destroy this warm atmosphere.

In fact, there are no major events in the house, they are all some life lock matters, so when they talk about it, they talk about the business affairs that Lin Wenqing is responsible for.

Now the commercial operation of Daijun has further developed, because the last plateau brought back a large number of craftsmen, coupled with the technology, the furniture are gradually mature, now the output of Daijun paper has increased greatly, a total of three paper mills have been opened, the average monthly production of paper more than 300,000, half of which are sold to Qi country, and the remaining 150,000 paper, about 100,000 in the Daijun area for sale and use, now the official documents between the officials at all levels of the Daijun are using paper, only the content is larger, It is necessary to keep the text for a long time before it is recorded with bamboo slips and wooden slips; The remaining paper was sold to other places through Zhao Di, and mainly to Qin.

Another important product of Daijun, paper books have also made great progress, there have been as many as 300 printed books, and the total number of books produced each month can exceed 1,000 copies, and the sales of paper books are better than paper bought, because in this era, it is not necessary to use paper, and you can still write records with bamboo slips and wooden slips, but the books are only the only one in Daijun, and the advantages of paper books are greater than those of bamboo slips and wooden slips, so now the orders for paper books in Daijun have been scheduled until two years later, if it were not for Lin Wenqing's order, It is forbidden to accept orders, and I am afraid that it will be in line until three or four years later.

Although the increase in production has reduced the price of paper and paper books, the cost has also decreased, while the profit has increased significantly, although the year is not over yet, and the final profit has not yet been calculated, but the profit exceeds a thousand Yi gold, which is an absolute thing. Moreover, it is also foreseeable that for a considerable period of time in the future, paper and paper books will be an important source of financial revenue for Dai County.