Liu Zheng proposed to let the Zhen family participate, which was out of trust in the Zhen family and distrust of the Zhang family.

It is not impossible to leave the Zhang family to do the whole thing of transporting horses from the north, but if the Zhang family is fully responsible, corruption and monopoly will surely breed.

If an industry has a monopoly, it will not be beneficial to its prosperity.

Moreover, the Zhang family has always been recommended by Yuan Shang, and their relationship with Liu Zheng is not very good. He is fully responsible for this matter and cannot fully trust Liu Zheng. With the participation of the Zhen family, Liu Zheng will feel much more at ease.

How could Zhang Shiping, an old and energetic guy, not know about this?

After Liu Zheng proposed this, he immediately agreed.

"Your Majesty, no problem. Anyway, this matter is of great importance. We are just Zhang family, and we cannot control it. If the Zhen family members participate, we can also ensure the success of this matter."

After all, this matter is of great importance, and it is impossible for the Zhang family to eat this cake alone.

With Liu Zheng's instructions, let more families participate.

It can also do this better.

This is good for both sides.

Zhang Shiping naturally would not refuse.

At this time, Liu Zheng nodded after hearing Zhang Shiping's agreement, and then confirmed the matter.

"Okay, since the matter is settled like this, then head of the Zhang family, you can go down and contact my Minister of Finance Mi Fang. Just tell him in detail how much initial start-up funds are needed. He will contact you on my behalf. He will decide the specific matters."

Liu Zheng doesn't need to worry about the rest of the matter, so there will naturally be other people who will connect with Zhang Shiping.

What Liu Zheng needs to worry about is whether the first batch of war horses transported from the north by Zhang Shiping and others in the near future meet his requirements.

After the matter was arranged, Liu Zheng met Mi Fang again.

When we met Mi Fang, we wanted to talk to Mi Fang and cooperate with Zhang Shiping to trade war horses, so that Mi Fang could have snacks and arrange for the people of the Mi family to take responsibility. At the same time, let Liu Zheng's second disciple Mi Wei start to gradually learn some of the things of the Mi family.

Secondly, when meeting Mi Fang, you have to discuss matters about the money house with Mi Fang.

The money house has been implemented for more than a year.

Of course, the response of the money shop has been good over the past year. At least the people under Liu Zheng have accepted the existence of the money shop and are also more aware of the paper money.

All counties and counties under his command have a money shop semicolon, although it is not easy to manage. However, it can continue to operate. At least Liu Zheng relies on money shops to continuously absorb private wealth. He does not worry about money in a short period of time, and the economy is also in a prosperous state.

After more than half a year of silence, Liu Zheng has recovered economically and has strong military strength. It is time to launch a battle against Liu Bei and others.

Mi Fang reported some recent events in the money house with Liu Zheng, but basically no trouble happened, because after the last incident with Xu You, there was no more embezzlement of money.

Everything was going on in an orderly manner, so Liu Zheng didn't ask too much and asked Mi Fang to go on and do his business.

For a long time, Liu Zheng lived a very leisurely life without any troubles in the war.

All I need to do on weekdays is to deal with the government affairs during the day, and at night, I will accompany my family.

Now his children are old and can surround him and call their father. Liu Zheng is also satisfied with this and likes this kind of life quite like this.

One month later.

The news came back from the north that Huang Zhong and Gan Ning led their troops to capture Shangyong and successfully captured Shangyong City. The troops were aimed directly at Hanzhong. However, without Liu Zheng's order, they did not act rashly. Although they were not far from Hanzhong, they still stopped the attack.

Although Hanzhong has a large population, the number of troops that can be formed will not be too large, at most 50,000 people.

These 50,000 people have to be stationed in different places by Zhang Lu in batches. In addition to the army, there are some believers of the Five Dogs of Rice Sect.

There were about 80,000 of these people mixed together, but after being allocated to various towns, Shangyong City was at its peak, which was only 30,000.

With only 20,000 to 30,000 soldiers, the two generals Huang Zhong and Gan Ning must be able to take advantage of the situation. From the very beginning, Liu Zheng knew that it was only a matter of time before he defeated Shangyong.

Now that it took a month to capture Shangyong City, Liu Zheng still felt that it was a bit slow.

Fortunately, when he heard the situation on Liu Bei's side from his subordinates, he didn't think anything was wrong. As long as Liu Bei had not completely captured Hanzhong, everything would be too late.

Liu Bei personally led his five generals to attack Hanzhong, but they traveled a long distance from Chang'an City to transport troops and horses to the Hanzhong area. After setting up camp in Anning, the journey took more than half a month.

After all, it is winter now, and it is extremely difficult to march under heavy snow. When wars go hand in hand, all kinds of things are very difficult.

Originally, Liu Bei and others were not very good at marching in winter. After running to the Hanzhong territory, half of the food and grass were consumed, and there was a shortage of food in winter. If Hanzhong was not captured in a short period of time, then Liu Bei's people would be in trouble. Liu Bei, who had always been cautious, finally chose to postpone the plan to attack Hanzhong.

We can only return to Chang'an first, and send a small group of troops to station near Hanzhong to open up the road along the way, and at the same time clear out a highway for the army to pass.

After hearing the news, Liu Zheng laughed. He thought Liu Bei would take Hanzhong with lightning speed, but who knew that Liu Bei would give up, which made the plan he prepared at the beginning ruined.

Perhaps it was also because of Liu Zheng's advance action that he sent Huang Zhong, Gan Ning and others to attack Shangyong, which made Liu Bei, who was originally ambitious, retreat a little.

Liu Zheng was staring at him. Even if Liu Bei had ambitions, he would not dare to take action in front of Liu Zheng. Otherwise, Liu Zheng would be a fisherman, which was not what Liu Bei wanted to see.

However, although Liu Bei gave up, Liu Zheng did not give up completely. The plan to attack Hanzhong was gradually brewing. However, it would take until next year.

Two more months have passed, and the whole long winter ushered in spring when the rain and snow melted.

February 193.

Although the rain and snow in early spring have melted, the weather is still cold.
Chapter completed!