Northern Army Camp.
The training was in full swing.
Liu Cheng personally presided over the drills and ate and lived with the soldiers.
In order to increase the soldiers' combat flexibility, strength, and attack speed, he ordered the recruitment of many private craftsmen to build many training equipment.
In the past, if he wanted to add equipment, he had to find a general to supervise him.
Instead of being subject to Dong Zhuo's equipment control in the future, Liu Chenggang began to make preparations in advance and set up the Northern Army's own equipment manufacturing workshop.
After a tiring day, Liu Cheng was discussing with Zhong Yao, Xun Yu, Zhang Ji and others in the lobby of the camp at night how to solve the problem of food procurement.
The Northern Army must have its own source of food and grass.
Sooner or later, Dong Zhuo will have the right to speak in the political hall.
Control, so now solving the problem of food and grass sources has become a top priority.
Liu Cheng said to everyone: "In the past, the imperial court also distributed food and grass to the army.
Too many things have happened in the past six months and the political situation has been turbulent.
In order to save trouble, the court now only distributes money, war horses, weapons and armor and other equipment to the army.
Food, grass and other Military supplies need to be purchased by the army itself.
After Dong Zhuo comes to power, he will definitely choke our necks in these aspects.
But don't worry about military expenses.
I will find a way to solve it.
The key is that you may not be able to purchase food even if you have money, so I think Let’s hear what you think” Zhang Ji cupped his hands and said, "General, can you think of a way for your Majesty to order the general to enter the Shangshutai to participate in politics?"
Zhong Yao has been an official in the imperial court for a long time.
Although he is only a minor official, he is very familiar with the operation of the imperial system.
He shook his head and said: "At present, it is almost impossible.
First, the general's qualifications are too young, and the minister Although the rank of the two chief officers is not high, they have great responsibilities.
The general is a military commander, neither.
He has no experience as a local official and has no qualifications to serve as an official in the capital.
If he is suddenly transferred from a military general to a civil servant in Shangshutai to participate in politics, I am afraid that Dong Zhuo will strongly object.
Even Lu Zhi and Ding Gong, who are currently in charge of Shangshutai, will not If you agree, other courtiers may also be dissatisfied.
In that case, it will be difficult for Your Majesty and the Queen Mother."
Xun Yu also said: "Yes, our established strategy is that if we don't confront Dong Zhuo head-on, we can't oppose him on government affairs.
Let him deal with those with vested interests.
The two sides will definitely fight to the death."
Zhang Jidao: "Since this is the case, then we can only solve the problem of grain and grass from the private sector.
I thought I could contact some private grain dealers and buy grain and grass from them."
Zhong Yao thought for a moment and raised his hands: "General, buying grain from grain merchants is not a long-term solution after all.
Nowadays, most of the fields in the world are in the hands of aristocratic families, and ordinary people only control very few fields, so most of the grain and grass are also in the hands of wealthy families.
Control is in the hands of aristocratic families, and most grain merchants in various places are controlled by aristocratic families.
One day the general fell out with the wealthy family, and the source of food and grass would be cut off.
The official suggested that some abandoned fields that had lost their owners could be purchased from the government at a low price in the name of the Northern Army, and then refugees could be recruited to cultivate them.
Anyway, the court would not give them to the army.
Distribute food and let the army solve the problem of food and grass on its own, and there are no regulations prohibiting the army from farming."
Liu Cheng's eyes lit up, he patted his thigh and said: "Okay, this is a very clever plan.
Zhang Ji, I'll leave this matter to you.
Send someone to contact the relevant officials of Henan Prefecture as soon as possible.
By the way, the former Henan Yin was Zhu Jun.
However, Zhu Jun was appointed as the captain of the city gate but was unable to take up the post.
Henan Yin lost his official position again, which is really unlucky.
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Who is Henan Yin now?"
Xun Yu said: "It's Huang Wan" "Is it Huang Wan?"
Liu Cheng touched his chin and said to Zhang Ji: "Buying land in the Sili area is too close and can easily be noticed by Dong Zhuo.
It is better to send people farther away.
Go to Hedong, Nanyang or Xuzhou, especially In the areas seriously damaged by the Yellow Turbans, many small aristocratic families, small landowners, and wealthy families were exterminated.
There must be a lot of unowned wasteland.
We will send people to buy it immediately.
However, we cannot delay contacting the grain merchants.
We still need to buy from the grain merchants now. to food and grass” "clear" At this time, Wang Shuang walked in quickly and whispered in Liu Cheng's ear: "General, the spies in the secret camp saw that Dong Zhuo sent someone to invite Situ Dinggong to his house for a banquet."
"What?"
Liu Cheng's face changed slightly after hearing this, "He just left so happily."
"They were taken away by force."
"This Dong Zhuo behaves completely unruly."
Liu Cheng was furious.
He said to everyone: "I just received news that Situ Dinggong was invited to a banquet by Dong Zhuo and was taken away by force."
Xun Yu, Zhong Yao, Zhang Ji and others all looked solemn after hearing this.
Xun Yu cupped his hands and said: "General, with Dong Zhuo's behavior, it seems that he has no scruples at all.
It seems that the situation will be more serious in the future."
Zhang Ji didn't know that Xun Yu and Zhong Yao had already formulated a major policy line for Liu Cheng's future development.
He said angrily: "General, this Dong Zhuo is too rampant.
We must find a way to get rid of him.
Since we can't use conventional means for the time being, If you want to kill him, then use unconventional means to kill him.
There should be soldiers in the army who dare to die, and you can prepare death soldiers for assassination."
Liu Cheng shook his head and said: "Dong Zhuo himself is a very suspicious person.
He is always surrounded by expert guards.
If you want to send someone to assassinate you, you can't get close to him.
Moreover, the people who dare to die in the army are not good at doing such things.
If you want to do it, For an assassination, a specialized assassin must be hired, but it is a pity that the general does not have such people.
We don’t have to worry about the assassination.
There will naturally be people who will use this method to kill him, so we can just sit back and watch the show."
Xun Yu said: "It seems that Dong Zhuo has already started to take action.
The first one to take action is Ding Gong.
He must not have good intentions in inviting Ding Gong to the banquet.
I don't know if Ding Gong will submit."
Liu Cheng sneered and said: "Let's just wait and see, Wang Shuang, send someone to keep watching.
This general wants to know the detailed process of their meeting."
"yes" After the matter was discussed, Zhong Yao, Xun Yu, Zhang Ji and others also took their leave and left.
As soon as they left, a soldier came in and reported: "General, He Chang has arrived."
"Let him in"
A middle-aged man walked in and bowed to Liu Cheng, clasping his fists and saying, "I've seen the general.
I wonder why the general is recruiting villains late at night."
Liu Cheng asked: "He Chang, how many people know that you are a clan member of the Queen Mother?"
He Chang said: "All the relatives of the villain have died in the Yellow Turban Rebellion, and now only the villain is left.
Only the queen mother and the general know the villain's identity, and even His Majesty does not know."
Liu Cheng nodded and said: "He Chang, this general has a task for you.
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After you return, immediately recruit people to go to Chang'an, Liangzhou, Bashu, Nanyang, Jingzhou, Jiangdong, Xuzhou, Qingzhou, Yanzhou, Yuzhou, Bingzhou, Branches of Datong Bank were established in Jizhou, Youzhou and other places.
To develop and expand Datong Bank, I need more money to support the establishment of semi-colonies in various places.
The establishment of semi-colonies can be done step by step.
The scale can be smaller at the beginning.
I will give you a tip.
I promise to provide some interest to private depositors.
This is used to attract people to deposit money into banks.”
He Chang frowned and said: "General, if you give interest to depositors like this, the interest alone will bring down the bank."
Liu Cheng said with a smile: "You can lend depositors' deposits at high interest rates to people who need money, but the borrower must have a mortgage.
For example, if the house, field or store cannot repay the loan when it is due, they will be charged."
The mortgaged property is then sold to others to recover the loan and interest.”
He Chang slapped his forehead and said in surprise: "This method is very wonderful":