From the world of martial arts

Chapter 263 Warm water boiled frog

In the battle between Sun Jian and Yuan Shu, it was indeed Sun Jian who failed first.

His background is still too bad, he doesn't have much land, especially the lack of food and grass. During the two years of fighting with Yuan Shu, the consumption of food and grass is a huge number.

Regarding the arrival of Sun Jian's envoy, he was asked to send troops to deal with Yuan Shu.

Yuan Shu is very powerful, another person might agree.

After all, Xuzhou is close to Yangzhou and Yuzhou, and it is the place of the Fourth World War. If Sun Jian is destroyed, it may be difficult for Xuzhou to block Yuan Shu's attack.

However, Su Fan was different. His strength was actually higher than Yuan Shu's, but no one knew about it for the time being.

With this confidence, Su Fan didn't care which of the two was the final winner.

Although he is joining forces with Sun Jian now, he may kill Yuan Shu, but he still has to attack Sun Jian when the time comes, if not in time, it will make Sun Jian bigger.

It's better to watch the two people die and the net is broken, and both lose.

Even if one person wins in the end, he can make a move immediately.

So it was impossible for Su Fan to send troops.

But Su Fan needed Sun Jian to consume Yuan Shu's power as much as possible, so Sun Jian's support was still necessary.

Su Fan did not go to see Sun Jian's envoy, even if the other party was Zhuge Jin, Marquis Wu's elder brother, it didn't matter to Su Fan.

First of all, it is difficult for the opponent to join Sun Jian now.

Secondly, there are quite a few civil servants under his command. After he took Xuzhou, his reputation improved again, and naturally a large number of talents came into the account.

Zhuge Jin's ability is very strong, capable of both civil and military affairs, he is first-class in internal affairs, and not bad in military affairs.

But that also requires him to reach the peak after more than ten years of experience.

Now he is naturally much worse than Xun Yu and the others.

The four years of Chuping soon passed like this. Throughout the whole year, except for a few places in the world, most of them were in war.

It was a lot easier for Su Fan to leave the people. Some of the dark lords of Su Fan's faction were dedicated to publicizing in various places, so there were 300 to [-] million refugees who flooded into Donghai County this year.

Of course, this number is very different from the landless refugees caused by the war in the world.

During the war, some cities were smashed, especially the armies of the local princes, who had no military discipline. Everywhere they went, the people were the most unlucky.

Those armies were like locusts, tens of millions or even more people were displaced due to the war.

Su Fan tried his best to keep it as close as possible, but it was very dangerous to travel a long distance, so there was nothing Su Fan could do.

I can only do my best.

Of course, he won Xuzhou, and the whole Xuzhou quickly entered peace. There may be bullies in the local area, but at least there is no war, and the people at the bottom do not need to be displaced and can survive.

Moreover, the army of Donghai Territory began to station in various counties and began to sweep away the bandits and bandits in the surrounding area. In just a few months, the whole Xuzhou was wiped out instantly.

Commerce has also become more prosperous.

After all, bandits and bandits like to rob horse caravans. Without these bandits and bandits, the caravans are naturally more enthusiastic, and more caravans enter Xuzhou.

Even many gentry's perception of Su Fan has changed a bit. At least this is a good thing for Xuzhou and the gentry.

Regardless of the low status of merchants, the aristocratic family is also engaged in business. The original Mi family was a top-notch business family.

Su Fan's commercial base in Donghai County has improved Xuzhou's business to several levels, especially the products produced in Donghai County are extremely welcomed by the whole Shenhan.

The Mi family is backed by the East China Sea Territory, but they are earning a lot of money. The Mi family, which used to be the lowest among the four major business families, is now almost sitting on the sidelines.

It's only been a few years.

The role of role models is very powerful. The aristocratic family in Donghai County, seeing that the Mi family is getting stronger, changed their thinking.

He started to get close to Su Fan, so in Donghai County, those gentry did not stop any of Su Fan's actions.

Even though they took a lot of land and asked them to take out a lot of black households, these gentry did not object.

Because Su Fan gave too much.

After the development of commerce and trade, they discovered that those in the land alone could not make much money at all.

The aristocratic family used to value land because of food, and food is wealth.

However, it does not exist in the East China Sea Territory, and it is difficult to link food and money, because there is too much food in the East China Sea Territory, and the price is even lower.

The gentry are not fools, and of course they are unwilling to see that they cannot make money. On the contrary, all kinds of commodities in the East China Sea are wealth, whether it is agricultural products such as salt and sugar, luxury accessories such as glassware, or clothing made of fur. It is a short sale.

So they drank the soup together, and each of them became rich, and the family's wealth increased several times.

The gentry in Donghai County also supported Su Fan most strongly.

As the gentry of Donghai County communicated more and more with Xuzhou aristocratic families, the Xuzhou aristocratic family also knew about the situation in Donghai.

There are even more caravans influx from Donghai County.

Su Fan's influence in Xuzhou was also increasing day by day.

This is a good thing, boil the frog in warm water, and slowly control Xuzhou completely in his own hands.

In fact, it's not that no one has discovered this situation. There are many smart families, but Su Fan's methods are upright, which can be said to be a conspiracy.

Even if they found out, they would be powerless to stop it. After all, the benefits that Su Fan brought to everyone were really incomparable to the loss of some land and tenants.

The land may have been valuable in the past, but it is worthless now, especially when Su Fan sent an army to keep sweeping up bandits and bandits around him, and at the same time hunted wild beasts in the wilderness and drove them into the mountains and rivers.

The flat land in the wilderness can develop more land, and once there is more of anything, it is really worthless.

Of course, in troubled times, the princes in various places lack food, and food is still valuable.

However, Su Fan had already made preparations to prohibit the outflow of food from Xuzhou, and anyone who was found would be punished tenfold.

Not only that, he also asked Guan Hai to send a group of elites to guard the intersections of some pipelines in and out of Xuzhou, specifically to rob those horse teams transporting food.

After a few times, those gentry caravans who secretly took risks did not dare to transport grain out of Xuzhou after suffering losses.

Smart people know that the bandit and bandit came from the Zhendong General's Mansion, but so what, the Governor's Mansion ordered that it cannot be violated on the surface.

Being robbed in private, I can only swallow this boring loss.

Over time, no one in Xuzhou transported food out.

In fact, although there is a shortage of food in various places, it is really not possible to make too much money from selling food. In this era, the roads are like that. The food trucks probably consume half of the food on the road.

There really isn't much to earn.

(End of this chapter)