These salt merchants are rich and super rich, and they are coveted by Liu Bu and Zheng Shining's in-laws. Their parents-in-law haven't seen each other for several months, so they naturally first came and talked about these salt merchants.

They became more and more excited as they talked, and they couldn't help but score twice and have another shot.

In fact, both of them were extremely greedy. When they saw that the salt merchants were so rich, they all became covetous. As a result, they tried it out immediately and immediately tried out the other party's intentions. They couldn't help but smile at each other. This is a soul couple.

Zheng Zining suggested: "Since you are already the general of Fengyang, you are under your control here and here. You can't let them get rid of you with three cores and two dates."

Liu Bu said, "This is inevitable. When I came here, I naturally had to get a share of this wealthy place. These people invited me to drink and eat, just to bribe me. How could I be fooled easily? I should not give me a point, but I can only get more than expected. If it is less, I can't spare them."

Zheng Zining likes to listen to these words.

Zheng Zining said: "Compared with the market controlled by these salt merchants, they can get not much of it just for you to give you enough ice charcoal. It's just some leftovers from others. If our Liu family army wants to expand, it's not enough for only tens of thousands of people. It's better to control it to around 50,000."

The implication is very obvious, that is, if the Liu family wants to expand their power, they must expand their army, and if they expand their army, they must have sufficient money and food.

Only after you have money and food can you fight. This is something that everyone understands.

However, with the wealth of the Liu family, it is not easy to raise so many soldiers and horses. And they all implemented a high-welfare professional military system, which made them all feel embarrassed. They are all in charge of soldiers and have thousands of soldiers under their command. They all understand one thing, that is, like they are now, they can be called "retreat if they don't advance or retreat. If they cannot take advantage of the situation and take the opportunity to strengthen themselves, they will retreat step by step.

In particular, Liu Bu understood that the Ming Dynasty was about to perish. If they could not strive for the greatest benefit and gain more territory when the Ming Dynasty was destroyed, they would die without a place to bury. You should know that what followed was that the Qing Dynasty ruled China and the Manchus could rule China. With their barbaric killing methods, he used a means of killing and killing against the people of the Han Dynasty. If he did not accept the killing, he would kill until he was obeyed.

You should know that Liu Bu will never sit idly by and ignore them no matter what. He will definitely fight and will definitely fight with the other party to the end. Under such circumstances, it is very necessary to have a strong army. Under this great purpose, he will expand his army at all costs. He will eliminate and kick everyone in front of him one by one. No matter who the other party is or who blocks his way, he will definitely kick him down.

Because Liu Bu understood that now is not the time to pay attention to benevolence, righteousness and morality. If he still embraced the kindness of benevolence, righteousness and morality, he would probably become a prisoner under the sword furnace and let the other party kill them completely.

If the Liu family does not take the opportunity to expand their army and make themselves stronger, the Ming Dynasty may perish in ten years. Whether the Liu family can last until ten years later is a question, because after next year, Jiannu will enter the pass and sweep the entire Shandong. Even Jinan Prefecture was captured by them and swept across the three eastern prefectures. If they do not have a powerful army to resist Jiannu, Jiannu will probably annihilate them by the way.

In the original version of Jiannu just swept across the Qingzhou Prefecture and Laizhou Prefecture and did not attack Dengzhou. That was because Dengzhou had become a white land and had no value worth fighting. But now the difference is that the three east prefectures have been unified and have become extremely powerful. If Jiannu attacked Shandong, the three east prefectures would be the must-see place.

So Liu Bu did not make any fantasies. Once Jiannu attacked the Central Plains in a large scale, he would definitely deal with the three east prefectures where their Liu family was located, and would definitely deal with the Liu family. There was no objection to this.

So Liu Bu knew that he didn't give him much time, only half a year. If he didn't make good use of the past six months, prepare enough troops and money and food, and when Jiannu came to the front of the door, they would be destroyed.

So Liu Bu was a little anxious, and he was a little reluctant to plunder more gold and silver, get more money and grain, and expand his army. You should know that he wanted to expand his army, but in fact there was only one way, that is, to make money, the more money the army, the more it would be.

This kind of thing can be described as fighting a war, fighting a comprehensive national strength, fighting a war is fighting a fortune or a cannon, and gold is 10,000 taels. As long as he has enough money, he can maintain his powerful army. As long as his Liu family's Liu family army is still there, it will not be so easy for Jiannu to sweep the Central Plains and Shandong.

Sometimes Liu Bu is indignant. Why do I lead the army to fight bandits here and Jiannu there? Life is hard, but these salt merchants do nothing, but they can enjoy the glory and wealth, eat the best food and play the best women, what is it? Is it because they are just borers who can take advantage of policy loopholes, and I, Liu Bu, are just born to work hard?

Especially after Liu Bu had these extreme ideas, he had even more thoughts, and it was already at the point where he would not be happy if he did not deal with these salt merchants.

Zheng Zining suddenly had a whim and said, "Can we learn the trick you had in Jimo?"

Liu Bu's move to loot Jimo was amazing for their Liu family. Not only did he defeat the enemy, but he also obtained a lot of money and food, which made them famous. Until now, this is a unsolved case. Except for those who are interested, many people do not know that this is the good thing that the Liu family army does.

Liu Bu also regarded this battle as a proud battle in his life, and often brags in front of his wife.

Liu Bu said: "Not good! I am the general of Fengyang. If something happened in Yangzhou, the court would only ask me. If it was okay in Fengyang before, but now it is in charge of the entire Fengyang Governor, the court can only ask me if anything happened. Hong Chengchou and others are eager to find my shortcomings."

Zheng Zining frowned and said, "What should I do? I can't grab it? I'm afraid I will cause you to do it secretly. These salt merchants are very rich. People with a lot of money have no place to spend it. Our Liu family army should help them."

Liu Bu thought of the various other hobbies and various other ways to make money. He really felt that these tyrants were too rich and too much money, and they didn't know how to spend it. They also had the responsibility and obligation to teach them how to spend it.

This money should be spent on the Liu family army, so that the Liu family army can equip more troops, buy more cannons and muskets, and make the army stronger. Then, attack Jiannu and eliminate this nomadic people that threatened the safety of the Central Plains dynasty.

Many of Liu Bu's current plans are implemented for Jiannu. As long as this nomadic group targeting the security of the Central Plains dynasty is eliminated, the Han Dynasty will not be lost. Perhaps the Ming Dynasty will still throw it to Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong or another rebellious leader, but it is better than falling into the hands of the Qing Dynasty and others.

Liu Bu is a typical example of a slave who would rather have to deal with a friend and would rather rot the meat in the pot than to give it to these foreigners.

It was because Liu Bu had these ideas that he was even more eager to get more money to implement this great ideal. As one of the top giants of the Liu family army, he also had the right to formulate the policies of the Liu family army. For example, if he wanted to expand the army in the past, he would definitely make his father nod. Why did he nod his father? Because the financial power is in Liu Yuanqiao.

Although Liu Yuanqiao is a talented and far-sighted person, he is inevitably bound to have the limitations of the times in many places. He is not as good as Liu Bu in some places.

So under such circumstances, Liu Bu decided to do it alone. Anyway, as long as he did things, his father had no reason to object.

So Liu Bu decided to make a lot of money and expand the army again no matter what. You must know that they got some money and grain from Zhang Xianzhong. These money and grains have just filled their previous deficits, but it is impossible and not enough to expand their army again and expand more than half of the scale.

Liu Bu had his plan, which was to expand the army in large quantities, and he had so many people to support him, so even though the Liu family had already made every effort to resume business and gain benefits from the canal with all their might, this was far from enough, and it was not enough to keep them strong and expanding. So he had to think of more ways and more reasons to get more money.

Originally, as a time traveler, he wanted to make money, and had many ways to get money. But since he came to Yangzhou and saw that these salt merchants in Yangzhou were so powerful, his ideas became simple and direct. Is there any way to get money faster in this world than robbing money?

These salt merchants would probably regret it very much. They tried their best to curry favor with Liu Bu, a powerful man, and wanted to pull him into the water and join them with them. Who would have thought that the other party was not pulled into the water by him, and they also coveted him and wanted to steal their money.

If these salt merchants knew that Liu Bu had this idea, they would probably have a dog's idea. They would think that even if I used the money to buy meat and feed the dog, it would be better than treating him Liu Bu to a meal.

Liu Bu had these ideas, which coincided with Zheng Zining, but after talking for a long time, neither of them thought of an effective way to do it.

You should know that unless they are rebelling directly now, if they dare not raise troops to rebel, they dare to loot Yangzhou, and they will probably be the serious crime of killing the nine clans and executing Lingchi.
Chapter completed!