Liu Bei also sent Zhang Fei to lead a patrol team to manage the city very well. Zhang Fei was irritable. If anyone dared to do whatever he did not obey the order, he would pass by a snake spear and stab ten or eight holes.

The public security has been improved and the stability has been settled, which is a barely good thing for the people.

When the information reached Xudu, the sound of teacup breaking came from Prime Minister Cao Cao's mansion.

"The big-eared thief is too bullying, pretending to be honest, growing vegetables and flowers all day long, and flying whenever he has the chance. If he had known this, he should have killed this big-eared thief."

Guo Jia advised him: "Lord, don't be angry. It's hard for Liu Bei to settle down in Nanyang, and he will come back by himself sooner or later."

"Oh, why is this?"

"Yuan Shu seems to be unable to do it anymore, but he still has 60,000 or 70,000 troops in his hand. He can't defeat us or Lu Bu. If he wants to expand his territory, he can only advance west to Nanyang. With tens of thousands of troops attacked, Liu Bei could not stop him. Although he claimed to have 4,000 troops, he had only more than a thousand elite soldiers, and the others were all new recruits who scattered. Liu Bei had just gone to Nanyang, and the local gentry would not work hard on him. He was just a rootless duckweed. It was not worth worrying to rely on the two generals Guan and Zhang alone."

Guo Jia said it was quite confident, so Cao Cao believed it.

At this moment, a man in a black cloak came in, still in the costume of a Taoist priest, but his hat was very big and his face covered. This person was amazing.

General Faqiu Zhonglang was directly under the secret troops under the jurisdiction of Cao Cao and Guo Jia.

The General of the Faqiu Zhonglang is not a technical flow. They are not called tomb robbers, but pushing them over. Thousands of soldiers took various tools to level the tomb directly, and no treasure was wasted at all.

"Report to the lord, military advisor. He has delivered a large amount of goods, including copper coins, gold and silver, and jewelry, jade, copper cauldrons, calligraphy and paintings, and cannot be estimated." He said that, and handed the list of materials to Cao Cao for a look.

After seeing this, Cao Cao was overjoyed: "Hahaha, God helps me. Lu Bu is a man, don't think that it's great if you have some new food."

Immediately, I gave a generous reward to General Faqiu, and ordered the reward of the three armies.

The General of the Central Army of Faqiu went down. Cao Cao was so happy that he looked at Guo Fengxiao with a smile.

"Fengxiao, what do you think?"

"Yes, I'll send Cao Hong to lead 10,000 troops to attack Huainan and come back after thirty days."

"Hahahaha, okay, okay, follow the filial piety and good plans."

Cao Cao made great efforts and arranged for Cao Hong to lead 10,000 troops to attack Huainan under the order of the emperor. He set out with great advice, and Xu Du's elders sent him off.

In fact, the army stopped after only one or two hundred miles away. Information is not developed these days, and the people are not allowed to approach the military camps. Outsiders don’t know what the situation is.

After more than twenty days, Cao Hong led the army to beat drums and gongs and returned victoriously. The carriage was filled with money, and the carriage was creaking with gold, silver and jewelry.

He annihilated 8,000 enemies, seized millions of coins, and there were also gold, silver and jewelry.

Cao Cao did this not only to whitewash the money obtained from tomb robbers, but mainly to stabilize the morale of the army and the hearts of the people. Cao's army needed a victory too much.

Let those gentry who have disagreements with Cao Cao see that Cao Cao is still Cao Cao, so be honest with me.

Cao Cao issued a military order to expand his military strength and call on the aristocratic families and wealthy families to donate money and materials.

If this order is issued normally, the effect will probably be very little.

But this time, Cao Hong returned with a great victory, captured huge numbers, and Cao Cao's army was powerful.

The aristocratic families in Puyang, Xudu, Chenliu and other places all contributed money and efforts. These aristocratic families were all very cunning, falsely reporting their population, falsely reporting their land, and evading taxes.

This time, one counts one, pays money and people pays food.

The old poisonous drug Jia Xu was personally responsible for the arrest of this matter. In just twenty days, a new soldier of 20,000 people was gathered. These soldiers were not ordinary soldiers, but private soldiers of aristocratic families, and now they are all dispatched by Cao Cao.

The grain was 200,000 shi, which was not a farm tax, but a donation from a large family.

In addition, the total copper, gold and silver is 1.2 million guan, and everyone gathered together to support Cao Cao.

Cao Cao's teeth were almost falling out of laughter. No matter how strong you are, Lu Bu, are you as wealthy as the Central Plains? Any wealthy family in the Central Plains started with a starting price of 100,000 yuan.

In comparison, Xuzhou's foundation is still much worse.

Cao Cao directed and performed a farce of a great victory, and obtained a lot of money, grain and troops. He transferred Xiahou Dun, Cao Hong and Xu Huang to three groups of troops, 5,000 cavalry and 25,000 infantry, and began to train troops.

Just when Cao Cao received a lot of money, grain and materials, Lu Bu was inspecting the paper mill in Xuzhou.

The huge paper mill is unprecedented in scale. The workshop alone covers an area of ​​more than ten acres.

There are more than 30 pulp pools, with a total of more than 300 workers.

The drying site is more than 300 acres, and the scale is unparalleled.

Three kinds of paper are produced as soon as they get on the horse.

Painting paper, writing paper and daily paper.

80% of the paper mill’s energy is spent on production and daily paper. It has been half a month since Lu Bu came to check the production status of the paper mill.

The light yellow soft straw paper floats with a faint paper fragrance, and this paper feels very soft to the touch.

Lu Su admired him very much. It took only four months from building the dam to building the factory. Now it has started production in March.

Loading bundles of paper onto a carriage and transporting them out continuously.

There is also a huge camel fleet, heading north to Qingzhou, Youzhou, and Bingzhou.

Lu Su took a piece of soft paper, folded it, and wiped his mouth.

"Tsk tsk, it's really good. After eating, I'll never be embarrassed anymore."

Lu Bu looked at it and said that the paper is fine, but the packaging is too simple.

"It also needs to be improved. The paper used to wipe the mouth must be made into small boxes and plucked out one by one. This is called tissue. The wealthy families don't care about that little money, they care about experience."

Lu Su was stunned: "The paper and meal paper for going to the toilet should be separated?"

"Yes, it is actually a kind of paper, but the packaging must be separated. Large packaging is supplied to the army and sold to civilians. Exquisite packaging is sold at a high price. Find ways to make the carton exquisite, and it is best to have a strong fragrance."

"What, the lord plans to let our soldiers use this kind of paper too?" Lu Su was surprised and his chin was about to fall off.

"Yes, why is Zijing so surprised?"

"This kind of paper, even if it is produced by ourselves, is of great value. It's nothing for a soldier, but our hundreds of thousands of soldiers are huge in consumption, not to mention that this is not a basic consumable."

"I often say that the soldiers are all my brothers and all my children. Now that I have good things, how can I not share them with my brothers for the sake of money?"

After hearing this, Lu Su was extremely excited, his hands trembled, and he lifted his clothes and knelt in front of Lu Bu: "Lord, benevolence and righteousness, will move the world."

In the era when there was no toilet paper, going to the toilet was a very embarrassing thing and I couldn't bear to look at it.
Chapter completed!