The twelfth lunar month has arrived, and while Zhang Shuo is on duty, he sometimes meets with relatives and friends, such as Wang Bing who came from Bianliang.

He was actually a little confused. Sometimes Master Shao suppressed the nobles, and sometimes he was very kind to the nobles. It was said that he was beating and pulling at the same time.

After thinking about it again, I understand.

If he hadn't studied martial arts, he wouldn't have been able to master writing and calligraphy at all.

The martial arts students in the previous ten periods were either refugees or war orphans. Who had the ability to read and write?

If you don't know how to read and write official documents and perform calculations, you won't be able to become an official.

However, Master Shao didn't do Wang Bing any favors, maybe because they had some quarrels before.

"The cold weather in Pingyang is really annoying." Wang Bing sighed and asked: "Chu Hou, why don't you want to buy property in Luyang? The king said that he would only farm in the twenty counties of Liang State and not outside Liang State.

There are countless people buying property. If you look at Jiyin to the east of Jiyang, the forts are connected, the manors are facing each other, and when the scholars gather together, it is like a grand gathering."

Zhang Shuo waved his hand and said: "Your Majesty has given me enough rewards."

He pointed to a carriage following behind him and said: "On the Laba Festival, the whole army gathered together to eat red bean porridge, eat and take it. There were fifty pieces of silk, ten sand fox skins, and ten Fuyu beauty beads in the carriage.

There are ten pieces of gold and silverware, twenty pieces of celadon, and a horse that is so small that I don’t even know if it can be sold.”

Wang Bing looked at it and said with a smile: "The reward is only temporary, but the wealth is a steady stream."

"There are still rewards on Zhengdan." Zhang Shuo said.

Wang Bing stopped talking.

He knew that King Liang especially liked to convene military schools for banquets, and then take the opportunity to hand out rewards, including money, goods, and beauties.

"Chu Hou, I will go to Mianbei after the Chinese New Year." The two slowed down and wandered on the renovated post road. Wang Bing looked at the vast snowfield and said: "The King of Liang has almost forgotten me. If you don't fight for me,

It doesn’t matter what happens in the clan, but my own family is in trouble.”

"What are you going to do in Mianbei?" Zhang Shuo asked.

"Wang Dun and Wang Chuzhong are dead..." Wang Bing said.

"Oh? Really?" Zhang Shuo said in surprise, he didn't know the news.

"Of course it's true." Wang Bing sighed: "Tao Kan has been promoted to the governor of Jingzhou."

"Where's Xun Song?"

"The Commander-in-Chief is in charge of the military affairs in the north of the Yangtze River in Yuzhou." Wang Bing said, "Actually, he is in charge of Anfeng and Yiyang counties."

"Where is Ji Zhan going?"

"He's dead too." Wang Bingdao said, "Chihou, you don't know anything about the outside world."

Zhang Shuo is a little embarrassed, but that's all. He is indeed not as well-informed as the Donghai Wang family.

"What position did the king give you?" he asked.

"The history of Shui Cao of the Mianbei shogunate is actually the same as the Guanqiu Zongru, just a name." Wang Bing said: "I went there mainly to inspect the scenery of Jingzhou for the king, and to prepare for the future northern gentry who will move south to buy houses and build properties.

Set up an outpost. Someone from the Wei family will go with me. Their family has a fiefdom in Jiangxia, so we might want to try to contact them."

"If the king changes his position, the former dynasty's fiefdoms will be lost, right?" Zhang Shuo asked.

"Although it's impossible to do anything about it, it's not necessarily impossible to take advantage of the situation and classify it as a Wei family manor." Wang Bing said.

"That's true." Zhang Shuo smiled and said, "So, if you want to build a manor, you'd better go to the south. Your Majesty promised wealth and honor. When we discussed the Tao in Jinyang, we obviously made an agreement, but we regretted it again."

Wang Bing was speechless.

Jinyang Lundao promised you wealth and honor. For the world's wealthy families, it is normal for them to be dissatisfied.

When Wang Bing came from Bianliang, he heard that a wealthy family in Ruyin County secretly contacted Anfeng. However, Ji Zhan was dead, so he was unable to respond for a while, and then leaked the secret...

They had no choice but to take advantage of the fact that the army had not yet surrounded and suppressed them, so they packed up their belongings, took their family and a few Quzhuang customers with them, hurried southward, and were resettled in Jiangzhou.

This happened! Why do you think you should do it?

In the end, didn't he still go to Jiangnan? Most of the family property was still in Ruyin and could not be taken away, so it was a huge loss.

But this is the thinking of some wealthy families. They are not clear-minded and cannot swallow this breath.

"Farewell." When they reached the fork in the road, Zhang Shuo bowed his hands to Wang Bing and said.

"Farewell." Wang Bing returned the gift and said: "The matter of buying property in Luyang is actually nothing. I don't know how many years have passed since the king conquered Jiangdong. I won't blame him for buying property now. When Jiangdong is conquered, I don't know how many years have passed."

After that, the worst possible thing is to spit it out."

Zhang Shuo smiled, turned and left.

Wang Bingze shook his head.

He didn't mean to harm Zhang Shuo, that's what he thought.

After buying a property, you will have stable income for two to three years, and you will make money every additional year.

The only disadvantage is probably that when the land is expanded to Luyang in the future, these disciples of King Liang will have a taste of the flesh-cutting of today's wealthy families in Liang.

You might feel resentful because of this.

However, Zhang Shuo may have seen this, so he didn't bother to bother.

As a group of warriors, there are more and more smart people.

Wang Bing couldn't help but think of Lu Chen, whom he met a few days ago. He heard that he had tried his best to convince the rich people of Youzhou to give up their private soldiers and serve as garrison soldiers. However, he was rejected by the King of Liang because he did not have enough qualifications.

In fact, Wang Bing felt that the King of Liang was not too taboo about recruiting wealthy tribesmen as soldiers.

After you become a soldier, will those songs really be of the same mind as you? This is not necessarily the case.

The "most outrageous thing" that King Liang did was to slowly awaken the warriors.

In the past, the term "soldier" was a derogatory term. Even if a scholar became a soldier, he would still be discriminated against.

Nowadays, the term "Bingjiazi" is still derogatory, but it is not as exaggerated as before.

Wang Bing was a soldier from a scholar's family, and he was very aware of the changes. If he was the main lineage of the Wang family in Donghai, he would never be able to join the Donghai Kingdom's army, it would be too cheap.

The soldiers of the military family had been talked about by the scholars for three hundred years, and their spirits were so low that they even believed that the soldiers of the military family should belong to the aristocratic family, because they were engaged in a lowly service profession and were not worthy of a higher status.

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The King of Liang woke them up, and from then on, it was impossible for the scholars to shout around and drive them around at a small price.

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After parting ways with Zhang Shuo, Wang Bing came to a manor backed by mountains and forests, overlooking the plains.

This was a gathering of scholars from Xuzhou, and it was mainly composed of juniors. Wang Bing was considered to be the older one, so as soon as he showed up, everyone greeted him one after another.

Wang Bing bowed to his master first, then sat down and looked at the furnishings in the house. He secretly thought that the Mi family had followed Liang Wang for many years and were accustomed to using high-end tables, tables, and beds.

"What are we discussing today? Could it be medicinal materials?" Wang Bing picked up the white and raw dendrobium on the table, looked at it, and said with a smile: "When has this been discussed?"

Mi Qu, the second son of Mi Huang, the leader of the army, and the younger brother of Mi Zhi, the governor of the general's palace, laughed and said: "Hongli has good eyesight, that's what it is. The king thinks that the style of talking is very good, but the things discussed are very empty and have no substance, so it should be changed."

Today all the distinguished people from Xuzhou are here, and the discussion is about the trade of medicinal materials."

"Where is this product produced?" Wang Bing asked casually: "It should be south of the Huaihe River, right?"

"Exactly." Mi Qu said: "The book "Fengtu Disease" has not yet been compiled, but some chapters have been circulated. Some people read it and broke out in a cold sweat. Nowadays, the price of medicine is rising every day, and some rich households,

Even if no one in the family is sick, I am still willing to buy some and keep them at home, or steam and fumigate the house."

It's no exaggeration to break out in a cold sweat.

Since the end of the Han Dynasty, people have been unable to escape the nightmare of disease.

Far away, five of the Seven Sons of Jian'an died in the epidemic. What level of disaster was that? It is not an exaggeration to say that 10 to 20 million people died of the disease in the world.

During the epidemic, people were decadent and felt that it was better to enjoy the present and have no tomorrow than to enjoy themselves in the present. Cao Wei's style of clear talk prevailed, and there were many topics discussing life matters.

On the one hand, scholars were afraid of disease, but on the other hand, they did not know how to get rid of it. However, after collecting and compiling "Female Diseases", many people discovered that many times they were actually seeking death by themselves when they contracted the disease!

For example, "Tuberculosis" (consumption, tuberculosis), I have told you the name, but you also go to the homes of people who died due to the infection. The host family also has countless, big things are done, the guests are packed, and everything is done

Many days.

These are all human-made messes.

Of course, many people don't understand, so the symptoms are described in detail in the book, which is easy to understand. You can compare it yourself.

"Is medicinal materials really in such short supply?" Wang Bing put down the Baiji and Dendrobium and asked.

"The Five Soldiers Cao made extensive requisitions, bought medicinal materials, and sent them to Jinyang to prepare for war." Mi Qu said: "The counties are also collecting. If so, won't the price go up?"

"But this thing was born in the southern country." Wang Bing said.

"That's right." Mi Qu smiled and said, "We are discussing whether to build a medicine garden when we go to Jiangdong in the future."

"Good idea." Wang Bing praised politely.

Unlike others present, his focus was: Has Qing Tan started talking about the business direction after capturing Jiangdong?

It’s not that strange to talk about this, because they will definitely go there in the future, so it’s definitely right to talk about going south in advance. But the problem is that the prerequisite for discussing this is that they are willing to go south.

The prerequisite for being willing to go south is to be willing to give up - at least partially give up the land and bankers in the north.
To be continued...